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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word from Chapter 2 means to have commercialized something?
(a) Mollified.
(b) Commodified.
(c) Extradicted.
(d) Codified.

2. What word in Chapter 4 refers to a contemplative person?
(a) Sycophant.
(b) Ruminant.
(c) Valedictorian.
(d) Allegiant.

3. The author writes in Chapter 5, "You begin to move around in search of the steps it will take before you are thrown back into your own body, back into your own need" for what?
(a) "For history."
(b) "To be found."
(c) "For justice."
(d) "To be loved."

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

5. Rankine writes in Chapter 5, "You could build a world out of need or you could" do what?
(a) "Stand in silence."
(b) "Hold everything black and see."
(c) "Lose need altogether."
(d) "Walk forward without looking."

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author claim the world says not to wear in the house in Chapter 4?

2. What does the author tell the reader not to lean against in Chapter 5?

3. Where has Judith Butler taught since 1993?

4. What does the word "denigrate" mean in Chapter 3?

5. According to the world's view, the author says in Chapter 4, "No one should adhere to the facts that contribute to" what?

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