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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 phrase is repeated in the first of the prints displayed in Chapter 3?
(a) "I do not always feel colored."
(b) "Get you to Heaven."
(c) "A past stacked among your pillows."
(d) "Your memory, vessel of your feelings."

2. What does the word "denigrate" mean in Chapter 3?
(a) To imply.
(b) To criticize unfairly.
(c) To elevate someone.
(d) To leave a situation.

3. What does the author say sighing does in Chapter 4?
(a) It entices.
(b) It encourages.
(c) It elicits sympathy.
(d) It upsets.

4. What phrase is repeated in the second of the prints that is displayed in Chapter 3?
(a) "Your memory, vessel of your feelings."
(b) "A past stacked among your pillows."
(c) "The meaning of life."
(d) "I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background."

5. What does the author describe Serena Williams doing during the Women's U.S. Open final in Chapter 2?
(a) Breaking down into tears.
(b) Exploding in an outburst of rage.
(c) Leaving the court.
(d) Calling the authorities.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where has Judith Butler taught since 1993?

2. What does the author describe her new therapist specializing in, in Chapter 1?

3. Why does the woman at the cafe tell the author her son was not accepted at the college of her choice in Chapter 1?

4. In Chapter 1, the author begins with the statement, "When you are alone and too tired even to turn on any of your devices, you let yourself linger in" what?

5. How many police cars arrived when the author's friend was harassed while babysitting for her in Chapter 1?

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