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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many police cars arrived when the author's friend was harassed while babysitting for her in Chapter 1?
(a) 10.
(b) 4.
(c) 2.
(d) 6.

2. Who is the "distinguished tennis chair umpire" described in Chapter 2 as "the most notorious of Serena's detractors"?
(a) Mariana Alves.
(b) Chris Marker.
(c) Zora Neale Hurston.
(d) Jayson Musson.

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

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

5. What does the author claim "the destination" is in Chapter 5?
(a) Inexorable.
(b) Incoherent.
(c) Illusory.
(d) Redacted.

Short Answer Questions

1. What ocean does the author describe "breaking on our heads" in Chapter 5?

2. Why does the woman at the cafe tell the author her son was not accepted at the college of her choice in Chapter 1?

3. In Chapter 6, the author writes, "He said, I don't know what the water wanted. It wanted to show you" what?

4. What does the author describe her friend calling her because she is late in the beginning of Chapter 3?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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