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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does "FEMA" stand for?
(a) The Federal Emergency Management Agency.
(b) The Financial Emergency Mitigation Agency.
(c) The First Emercency Management Agency.
(d) The Federal Extention Management Agency.

2. The author claims in Chapter 1, "A friend argues that Americans battle between the 'historical self' and" what?
(a) "The need for power."
(b) "The 'future self.'"
(c) "The 'cultural self.'"
(d) "The 'self self.'"

3. The author describes "the past" as a life sentence and uses what metaphor to describe it in Chapter 5?
(a) "A blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow."
(b) "A car rolling down a mountain."
(c) "A sharp arrow shooting backward."
(d) "A pillow where you lay your head."

4. What word in Chapter 5 means to cease resistance to an enemy or opponent and submit to their authority?
(a) Evoke.
(b) Reverie.
(c) Convoke.
(d) Surrender.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who shot and killed Trayvon Martin?

2. Who is the "distinguished tennis chair umpire" described in Chapter 2 as "the most notorious of Serena's detractors"?

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

4. On what date was James Craig Anderson murdered?

5. How does the author describe the houses in Louisiana during Katrina in Chapter 6?

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