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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 3 – 4 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What women's basketball team was insulted by the commentary of a radio host in 2007 during a discussion of the NCAA Women's Basketball Championship?
(a) The Harvard University women's basketball team.
(b) The Yale University women's basketball team.
(c) The Rutgers University women's basketball team.
(d) The Princeton University women's basketball team.

2. What does the word "fabricate" mean in Chapter 4?
(a) To sew.
(b) To deplete.
(c) To deceive or lie.
(d) To conjure or invent.

3. What film does the author describe seeing with a friend in Chapter 1?
(a) The House We Live In.
(b) Amistad.
(c) Tomorrow's Child.
(d) The Color Purple.

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) "Context."
(b) "Irony."
(c) "Gravity."
(d) "Character."

5. Who wrote the following quotation that opens the book: "If they don't see happiness in the picture, at least they'll see the black"?
(a) Chris Marker.
(b) Sherman James.
(c) Zora Neale Hurston.
(d) Glenn Ligon.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author claims in Chapter 3 that "Language that feels hurtful is intended to exploit all the ways that you are" what?

2. What does the "woman with multiple degrees" say she didn't know black women could get, in Chapter 3?

3. How does the author respond when a friend says in Chapter 3, "You are always on sabbatical"?

4. Where does the author describe rushing to meet a friend in the beginning of Chapter 3?

5. What word from Chapter 2 means ordinary or everyday?

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