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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 from Chapter 4 refers to a sentimental longing for the past?
(a) Recompense.
(b) Cultivation.
(c) Nostalgia.
(d) Allusion.

2. In Chapter 3, the author writes, "Someone in the audience asks the man promoting his new book on humor what makes something funny. His answer is what you expect." What is the answer he gives?
(a) "Context."
(b) "Gravity."
(c) "Character."
(d) "Irony."

3. 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."

4. What was the song-and-dance caricature of blacks that developed later into the term "Jim Crow" in referring to African Americans?
(a) "Jump Jim Crow."
(b) "Dance Jim Crow."
(c) "Fighting Jim Crow."
(d) "Black Jim Crow."

5. What does the author say sighing does in Chapter 4?
(a) It elicits sympathy.
(b) It upsets.
(c) It encourages.
(d) It entices.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author describe around the collar of her big coat in Chapter 5?

2. The author claims in Chapter 5, "Listen, you, I was creating a life study of" what?

3. In Chapter 6, the author says, "The fiction of the facts assumes innocence, ignorance, lack of intention" and what else?

4. The author writes in Chapter 1, "If this were a domestic tragedy, and it might well be, this would be your fatal flaw." What is the fatal flaw she describes?

5. The author writes in Chapter 2, "For years you attribute to Serena Williams a kind of resilience appropriate only for those who exist" how?

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