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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author describe the man at the cash register asking her in Chapter 3?
(a) Whether she thinks her card will work.
(b) Whether she is a writer.
(c) Whether she would like to pay by cash or credit.
(d) Whether she will be dining in.

2. What does the "woman with multiple degrees" say she didn't know black women could get, in Chapter 3?
(a) The flu.
(b) Cancer.
(c) Jobs.
(d) Tuberculosis.

3. The author describes hearing two men outside a conference room in Chapter 3, when one says to the other that "being around black people is like" what?
(a) "Being in a pool of fish."
(b) "Being amongst fellow compatriots."
(c) "Wandering alone in a desert."
(d) "Watching a foreign film without translation."

4. What women's basketball team was insulted by the commentary of a radio host in 2007 during a discussion of the NCAA Women's Basketball Championship?
(a) The Princeton University women's basketball team.
(b) The Yale University women's basketball team.
(c) The Harvard University women's basketball team.
(d) The Rutgers University women's basketball team.

5. In Chapter 3, the author describes Judith Baker discussing what makes language hurtful. She writes that Baker's response is "We suffer from the condition of being" what?
(a) "Angry."
(b) "Superior."
(c) "Addressable."
(d) "Frightened."

Short Answer Questions

1. The author claims in Chapter 1, "A friend argues that Americans battle between the 'historical self' and" what?

2. The author writes in Chapter 5, "Someone claimed we should use our skin as" what?

3. What is the author's response to the question regarding tennis, "Did you win?" in Chapter 7?

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 is the narrator instructed to do after being fingerprinted and stripped in "Stop-and-Frisk" in Chapter 6?

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