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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the teacher described in Chapter 1?
(a) Mr. Jackson.
(b) Sister Evelyn.
(c) Mrs. Anderson.
(d) Mrs. James.

2. What does the "woman with multiple degrees" say she didn't know black women could get, in Chapter 3?
(a) Jobs.
(b) The flu.
(c) Cancer.
(d) Tuberculosis.

3. What does the man point out about his wife when he shows the author a picture of her in Chapter 5?
(a) She is Hispanic.
(b) She is white.
(c) She is young.
(d) She is black.

4. What does the author tell the reader not to lean against in Chapter 5?
(a) The wallpaper.
(b) The judge.
(c) The fence.
(d) The peeling paint.

5. The author writes in Chapter 7, "You are not sick, you are not injured-- you ache for" what?
(a) "Consistency."
(b) "Your solitude."
(c) "The rest of life."
(d) "Communion."

Short Answer Questions

1. What literary word employed by the author in Chapter 5 refers to a word that can function by itself as a noun phrase and that refers to either the participants or something else?

2. Whom does the author cite with the quote in Chapter 2, "I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background"?

3. What word used in Chapter 5 refers to a caste in Hinduism specializing as priests, teachers, and protectors of sacred learning?

4. The author concludes Chapter 3 by saying that what "shouldn't be an ambition"?

5. What does the author claim "the destination" is in Chapter 5?

(see the answer key)

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