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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author writes in Chapter 6, "In a landscape drawn from an ocean bed, you can't drive yourself" what?
(a) "To revenge."
(b) "Sane."
(c) "To love."
(d) "Insane."

2. Whom did Serena Williams play in her semifinal matchup in the 2004 Women's U.S. Open?
(a) Glenn Ligon.
(b) Venus Williams.
(c) Jennifer Capriati.
(d) Mariana Alves.

3. The author writes in Chapter 7, "Closed to traffic, the previously unexpressive street fills with" what?
(a) "Small bodies."
(b) "Street hawkers."
(c) "Taxis."
(d) "Food vendors."

4. 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 dean is making him hire a person of color when there are so many great writers out there."
(d) "That his work was examining race in America."

5. The author writes in Chapter 2, "For years you attribute to Serena Williams a kind of resilience appropriate only for those who exist" how?
(a) "In isolation."
(b) "In black."
(c) "In celluloid."
(d) "In loss."

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the school described as being located in Chapter 1?

2. The author writes in Chapter 4 that the past has "turned your flesh into its own" what?

3. What is the narrator instructed to do after being fingerprinted and stripped in "Stop-and-Frisk" in Chapter 6?

4. How many individuals were indicted for conspiracy of several hate crimes against African Americans, including James Craig Anderson, committed from the spring of 2011 to March 2012?

5. The author writes in Chapter 7, "Though a share of all remembering, a measure of all memory, is breath and to breathe you have to create" what?

(see the answer key)

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