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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author writes in Chapter 5, "Someone claimed we should use our skin as" what?
(a) "Protection."
(b) "Revenge."
(c) "Wallpaper."
(d) "A blanket."

2. What word from Chapter 5 refers to a state of being pleasantly lost in one's thoughts?
(a) Epistolary.
(b) Compulsion.
(c) Levity.
(d) Reverie.

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

4. 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 desperation that you cannot name."
(c) "Your memory, vessel of your feelings."
(d) "A white cloud of rain."

5. What does "FEMA" stand for?
(a) The Financial Emergency Mitigation Agency.
(b) The Federal Emergency Management Agency.
(c) The Federal Extention Management Agency.
(d) The First Emercency Management Agency.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the word "iterate" mean in Chapter 4?

2. How does the author describe the houses in Louisiana during Katrina in Chapter 6?

3. Who is the "distinguished tennis chair umpire" described in Chapter 2 as "the most notorious of Serena's detractors"?

4. What does the author claim "isn't a cure for feeling, it is a clean displacement of effort, will, and disappointment" in Chapter 4?

5. What word from Chapter 2 means ordinary or everyday?

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