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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of Hennessy Youngman's internet series that the author discusses in Chapter 2?
(a) "Web Rulez."
(b) "Wonderworks."
(c) "Life Rules."
(d) "Art Thoughtz."

2. What does the ocean do regarding the "blues it can't absorb" in Chapter 5?
(a) It hides.
(b) It blushes.
(c) It shivers.
(d) It flees.

3. The author writes in Chapter 5, "Everyone understood you to be suffering and still everyone thought you thought" what?
(a) "You were invisible."
(b) "You were alone."
(c) "You were nothing."
(d) "You were the sun."

4. What work by James Baldwin is cited at the end of the book?
(a) The Fire Next Time.
(b) Cruel Optimism.
(c) The Location of Culture.
(d) The Space of Literature.

5. What does the word "vista" mean from Chapter 7?
(a) A pleasing view.
(b) A balcony.
(c) An entrance room.
(d) A ship's deck.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author asks of the reader in Chapter 6 of the victims of Hurricane Katrina, "Have you seen their" what?

2. What does the author claim that moaning elicits in Chapter 4?

3. When does the author first describe watching the Women's U.S. Open final in Chapter 2?

4. Where is the author when she describes a man showing her a picture of his wife in Chapter 5?

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

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