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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author describe her new therapist specializing in, in Chapter 1?
(a) Anxiety disorders.
(b) Marriage counseling.
(c) Family counseling.
(d) Trauma counseling.

2. What does the author describe the passenger in her car telling her in Chapter 1?
(a) "That his wife is leaving him for the dean with whom she's been having an affair."
(b) "That his work was examining race in America."
(c) "He didn't care for his family or his friends."
(d) "That his dean is making him hire a person of color when there are so many great writers out there."

3. Where has Judith Butler taught since 1993?
(a) The University of Illinois, Chicago.
(b) The University of California, Berkeley.
(c) Princeton University.
(d) New York University.

4. Whom did Serena Williams play in her semifinal matchup in the 2004 Women's U.S. Open?
(a) Glenn Ligon.
(b) Venus Williams.
(c) Jennifer Capriati.
(d) Mariana Alves.

5. Why does the woman at the cafe tell the author her son was not accepted at the college of her choice in Chapter 1?
(a) Because of his failing grades.
(b) Because of his lack of ambition.
(c) Because of his lack of extracurricular activities.
(d) Because of affirmative action.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what airline does the author describe sitting in a window seat in Chapter 1?

2. 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?

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

4. What does the author refer to "doubt" as in Chapter 1?

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

(see the answer key)

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