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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is the author when she describes a man showing her a picture of his wife in Chapter 5?
(a) In a seminar meeting.
(b) In the bar of a restaurant.
(c) In a convenient store.
(d) In her friend's house.

2. What phrase is repeated in the second of the prints that is displayed in Chapter 3?
(a) "A past stacked among your pillows."
(b) "The meaning of life."
(c) "I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background."
(d) "Your memory, vessel of your feelings."

3. The author writes in Chapter 5, "You begin to move around in search of the steps it will take before you are thrown back into your own body, back into your own need" for what?
(a) "To be found."
(b) "For history."
(c) "To be loved."
(d) "For justice."

4. What word from Chapter 2 means to have commercialized something?
(a) Mollified.
(b) Codified.
(c) Extradicted.
(d) Commodified.

5. What tennis tournament have the Williams sisters boycotted since 2001?
(a) The ATP World Tour Finals.
(b) The Miami Open.
(c) The Indian Wells Masters.
(d) The Madrid Open.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word from Chapter 5 means relating or denoting the writing of letters?

2. Who wrote the following quotation that opens the book: "If they don't see happiness in the picture, at least they'll see the black"?

3. Who is the researcher that came up with the term "John Henryism"?

4. What is the name of Hennessy Youngman's internet series that the author discusses in Chapter 2?

5. What does the author say sighing does in Chapter 4?

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