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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word from Chapter 2 means ordinary or everyday?
(a) Arbitrary.
(b) Quotidian.
(c) Elusive.
(d) Culinary.

2. What radio host is cited by the author in Chapter 3 for insulting a women's basketball team with racist slurs in Chapter 3?
(a) Glenn Ligon.
(b) Don Imus.
(c) Alex Jones.
(d) Howard Stern.

3. What word does the author use in Chapter 5 to mean a thing that blocks one's way?
(a) Attribute.
(b) Reverie.
(c) Protagonist.
(d) Obstacle.

4. What does the author's friend say when the author is questioned by the cashier in Chapter 3?
(a) "Back off."
(b) "What is your problem?"
(c) "Who are you to ask?"
(d) Nothing.

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) "Frightened."
(d) "Addressable."

Short Answer Questions

1. What was considered to be the murder weapon in James Craig Anderson's death?

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

3. The author writes in Chapter 5, "You begin to move around in search of the steps it will take before you are thrown back into your own body, back into your own need" for what?

4. On what dates does the author cite for the section titled "In Memory of Trayvon Martin" in Chapter 6?

5. The author says in Chapter 4 that "truth be told, you could no more control those sighs than" what?

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