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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What tennis tournament have the Williams sisters boycotted since 2001?
(a) The Madrid Open.
(b) The ATP World Tour Finals.
(c) The Miami Open.
(d) The Indian Wells Masters.

2. The author writes in Chapter 7, "Though a share of all remembering, a measure of all memory, is breath and to breathe you have to create" what?
(a) "An embrace."
(b) "A truce."
(c) "Love."
(d) "A silence."

3. In Chapter 7 the author writes, "I they he she we you turn / only to discover / the encounter / to be" what?
(a) "What we are waiting for."
(b) "Plain."
(c) "Alien to this place."
(d) "A glimpse into tomorrow."

4. When was the painting completed that concludes Citizen: An American Lyric?
(a) 1855.
(b) 1840.
(c) 1902.
(d) 1798.

5. Where is the school described as being located in Chapter 1?
(a) On Steinway Street.
(b) On Broadway.
(c) On White Plains Road.
(d) On Jackson Street.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color is described repeatedly throughout Chapter 5?

2. Where has Judith Butler taught since 1993?

3. When was Rober Lowell's Live Studies published?

4. The author claims in Chapter 3 that "Language that feels hurtful is intended to exploit all the ways that you are" what?

5. What does the author claim "won't attach you to anything no matter how depleted you feel" in Chapter 5?

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