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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The author writes in Chapter 6, "The prison is not a place you enter. It is" what?
(a) "A silence."
(b) "A hell."
(c) "No place."
(d) "A place you die."

3. 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?
(a) "A past stacked among your pillows."
(b) "A white cloud of rain."
(c) "A desperation that you cannot name."
(d) "Your memory, vessel of your feelings."

4. In "Long Form Birth Certificate" in Chapter 6, the author writes, "All living is listening for" what?
(a) "A throat to open."
(b) "The world of evil."
(c) "The madman."
(d) "History."

5. In Chapter 5, the author writes, "You give yourself back until nothing's left but the dissolving blues of" what?
(a) "Levity."
(b) "Metaphor."
(c) "Love."
(d) "Hatred."

Short Answer Questions

1. What tennis tournament have the Williams sisters boycotted since 2001?

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

3. What radio host is cited by the author in Chapter 3 for insulting a women's basketball team with racist slurs in Chapter 3?

4. Where was James Craig Anderson murdered?

5. 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?

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