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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) Jayson Musson.
(b) Glenn Ligon.
(c) Chris Marker.
(d) Sherman James.

2. What does the author say sighing does in Chapter 4?
(a) It upsets.
(b) It elicits sympathy.
(c) It entices.
(d) It encourages.

3. On what date did the center of Hurricane Katrina pass southeast of New Orleans, Louisiana?
(a) February 26, 2012.
(b) June 26, 2005.
(c) August 4, 2011.
(d) August 29, 2005.

4. In Chapter 3, the author writes, "Someone in the audience asks the man promoting his new book on humor what makes something funny. His answer is what you expect." What is the answer he gives?
(a) "Gravity."
(b) "Irony."
(c) "Context."
(d) "Character."

5. With whom was the collaboration for the script described in Chapter 6?
(a) Chris Marker.
(b) Jennifer Capriati.
(c) John Lucas.
(d) Sherman James.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author writes in Chapter 3, "After considering Butler's remarks, you begin to understand yourself as rendered" what?

2. Chapter 6 is described by the author as a script for what?

3. What is the title of Joseph Mallord William Turner's painting that concludes Citizen: An American Lyric?

4. In Chapter 5, the author writes, "You give yourself back until nothing's left but the dissolving blues of" what?

5. The author writes in Chapter 1, "If this were a domestic tragedy, and it might well be, this would be your fatal flaw." What is the fatal flaw she describes?

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