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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 affirmative action.
(b) Because of his lack of ambition.
(c) Because of his lack of extracurricular activities.
(d) Because of his failing grades.

2. The author writes in Chapter 4 that the "sigh is the pathway to" what?
(a) "Love."
(b) "Vulnerability."
(c) "The self."
(d) "Breath."

3. What word in Chapter 5 means to cease resistance to an enemy or opponent and submit to their authority?
(a) Reverie.
(b) Evoke.
(c) Convoke.
(d) Surrender.

4. The author writes in Chapter 1, "You are reminded of a conversation you had recently, comparing the merits of sentences constructed implicitly with 'yes, and' rather than" what?
(a) "Yes, but."
(b) "No."
(c) "No, and."
(d) "No, but."

5. What is the narrator instructed to do after being fingerprinted and stripped in "Stop-and-Frisk" in Chapter 6?
(a) To make a telephone call.
(b) To step into the holding cell.
(c) To speak with her lawyer.
(d) To leave and walk home.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the author describe being when she confronts a man for calling a group of teenagers "niggers" in Chapter 1?

2. 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?

3. What does the author describe the passenger in her car telling her in Chapter 1?

4. What does the author describe holding in her hand as she leans against the sink in the end of Chapter 5?

5. Who is the performer who invented the persona of Hennessy Youngman?

(see the answer key)

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