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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 word from Chapter 4 refers to a sentimental longing for the past?
(a) Allusion.
(b) Nostalgia.
(c) Cultivation.
(d) Recompense.

2. What does the girl behind the school girl ask her to do when they are taking exams in Chapter 1?
(a) To lean to the right so she can copy her answers.
(b) To tell the teacher that she is going to be sick.
(c) To ask the teacher for a pencil.
(d) To go with her to the restroom.

3. What word from Chapter 3 means lacking normal clarity or intelligibility in speech or thought?
(a) Articulate.
(b) Incoherent.
(c) Inexorable.
(d) Astute.

4. What word from Chapter 2 means ordinary or everyday?
(a) Culinary.
(b) Arbitrary.
(c) Elusive.
(d) Quotidian.

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) Glenn Ligon.
(b) Sherman James.
(c) Zora Neale Hurston.
(d) Chris Marker.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 3, the author writes, "A friend tells you he has seen a photograph of you on the Internet and he wants to know why you look so" what?

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

3. The author claims in Chapter 1, "A friend argues that Americans battle between the 'historical self' and" what?

4. The author writes in Chapter 4 that the "sigh is the pathway to" what?

5. What is the name of the girl who sits behind the protagonist in the school room in Chapter 1?

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