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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the author refer to "doubt" as in Chapter 1?
(a) Reactionary.
(b) Visionary.
(c) Inexorable.
(d) Implicit.

3. How old does the author describe the school girl in Chapter 1?
(a) 12.
(b) 6.
(c) 9.
(d) 16.

4. In Chapter 3, the author writes, "A friend tells you he has seen a photograph of you on the Internet and he wants to know why you look so" what?
(a) "Happy."
(b) "Cerebral."
(c) "Angry."
(d) "Scared."

5. The author writes in Chapter 4 that the "sigh is the pathway to" what?
(a) "Vulnerability."
(b) "Breath."
(c) "The self."
(d) "Love."

6. What does the world say about memory and the past, according to the author in Chapter 4?
(a) To question it.
(b) To analyze it.
(c) To forget it.
(d) To embrace it.

7. Who is the researcher that came up with the term "John Henryism"?
(a) Chris Marker.
(b) Glenn Ligon.
(c) Mariana Alves.
(d) Sherman James.

8. The author describes Hennessy Youngman in Chapter 2, saying that "He advises black artists to cultivate" what?
(a) "An expression of desire."
(b) "An angry nigger exterior."
(c) "A wider world-view."
(d) "A beacon of yesterday."

9. 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."

10. The author writes in Chapter 1, "You are reminded of a conversation you had recently, comparing the merits of sentences constructed implicitly with 'yes, and' rather than" what?
(a) "Yes, but."
(b) "No, but."
(c) "No, and."
(d) "No."

11. When does the author first describe watching the Women's U.S. Open final in Chapter 2?
(a) 2007.
(b) 2011.
(c) 2009.
(d) 2013.

12. What is the name of the girl who sits behind the protagonist in the school room in Chapter 1?
(a) Mary Catherine.
(b) Maria.
(c) Sarah Anne.
(d) Michelle.

13. What does the word "iterate" mean in Chapter 4?
(a) To deplete.
(b) To conjure or invent.
(c) To deceive or lie.
(d) To perform or utter repeatedly.

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

15. What phrase is repeated in the first of the prints displayed in Chapter 3?
(a) "Your memory, vessel of your feelings."
(b) "A past stacked among your pillows."
(c) "Get you to Heaven."
(d) "I do not always feel colored."

Short Answer Questions

1. Where has Judith Butler taught since 1993?

2. What does the author claim "isn't a cure for feeling, it is a clean displacement of effort, will, and disappointment" in Chapter 4?

3. What does the author describe her new therapist specializing in, in Chapter 1?

4. 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?

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

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