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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 3 – 4 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does the author first describe watching the Women's U.S. Open final in Chapter 2?
(a) 2009.
(b) 2011.
(c) 2013.
(d) 2007.

2. Rankine opens Chapter 4 with the statement that "To live through the days sometimes you moan like" what?
(a) "Children."
(b) "Deer."
(c) "Slaves."
(d) "Sheep."

3. What does the author describe the passenger in her car telling her in Chapter 1?
(a) "He didn't care for his family or his friends."
(b) "That his wife is leaving him for the dean with whom she's been having an affair."
(c) "That his work was examining race in America."
(d) "That his dean is making him hire a person of color when there are so many great writers out there."

4. What word from Chapter 2 means ordinary or everyday?
(a) Culinary.
(b) Quotidian.
(c) Arbitrary.
(d) Elusive.

5. The author concludes Chapter 3 by saying that what "shouldn't be an ambition"?
(a) "New paths to progress."
(b) "Just getting along."
(c) "Reexamining history."
(d) "Justice."

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the author respond when a friend says in Chapter 3, "You are always on sabbatical"?

2. How many bad calls did the umpire detractor make against Serena Williams in her semifinal matchup in 2004?

3. What artist stenciled the line "I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background" on canvas, transforming the words into abstractions?

4. What does the world say about memory and the past, according to the author in Chapter 4?

5. The author says in Chapter 4 that "truth be told, you could no more control those sighs than" what?

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