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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author claim "isn't a cure for feeling, it is a clean displacement of effort, will, and disappointment" in Chapter 4?
(a) "Watching football."
(b) "Reading the newspaper."
(c) "Watching tennis."
(d) "Writing."

2. What literary word employed by the author in Chapter 5 refers to a word that can function by itself as a noun phrase and that refers to either the participants or something else?
(a) Protagonist.
(b) Pronoun.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Gerund.

3. Who is the teacher described in Chapter 1?
(a) Mrs. Anderson.
(b) Mrs. James.
(c) Mr. Jackson.
(d) Sister Evelyn.

4. In Chapter 6, the author says, "The fiction of the facts assumes innocence, ignorance, lack of intention" and what else?
(a) "Corruption."
(b) "Education."
(c) "Misdirection."
(d) "Ambition."

5. The author describes the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in Chapter 6, saying that her friend said that the FEMA people all wanted to stay where?
(a) In Arkansas.
(b) In Georgia.
(c) In Missouri.
(d) In Texas.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is cited as saying that "skin color cannot be more important than the human being" in Chapter 6?

3. What does the author say sighing does in Chapter 4?

4. Who wrote the following quotation that opens the book: "If they don't see happiness in the picture, at least they'll see the black"?

5. What phrase is repeated in the second of the prints that is displayed in Chapter 3?

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