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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the song-and-dance caricature of blacks that developed later into the term "Jim Crow" in referring to African Americans?
(a) "Fighting Jim Crow."
(b) "Black Jim Crow."
(c) "Jump Jim Crow."
(d) "Dance Jim Crow."

2. What word from Chapter 5 refers to a state of being pleasantly lost in one's thoughts?
(a) Levity.
(b) Compulsion.
(c) Reverie.
(d) Epistolary.

3. In Chapter 6, the author says, "The fiction of the facts assumes innocence, ignorance, lack of intention" and what else?
(a) "Ambition."
(b) "Misdirection."
(c) "Corruption."
(d) "Education."

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

5. How does the author describe the houses in Louisiana during Katrina in Chapter 6?
(a) As ghosts.
(b) As mumbling structures.
(c) As crumbling structures.
(d) As tumbling structures.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the author solicit the reader to "Join me down here" in Chapter 5?

2. In Chapter 3, the author writes, "A friend tells you he has seen a photograph of you on the Internet and he wants to know why you look so" what?

3. What does "Beau Travail" translate to in English?

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

5. What does the author claim "won't attach you to anything no matter how depleted you feel" in Chapter 5?

(see the answer key)

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