View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author describe buying from the cashier when out with her friend in Chapter 3?
(a) A college textbook.
(b) A dress and heels.
(c) A sandwich and a Pellegrino.
(d) A steak and a glass of wine.

2. What film does the author describe seeing with a friend in Chapter 1?
(a) The House We Live In.
(b) The Color Purple.
(c) Tomorrow's Child.
(d) Amistad.

3. What does the author describe Serena Williams doing during the Women's U.S. Open final in Chapter 2?
(a) Exploding in an outburst of rage.
(b) Breaking down into tears.
(c) Leaving the court.
(d) Calling the authorities.

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

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

6. What does the author describe her friend calling her because she is late in the beginning of Chapter 3?
(a) A "nappy-headed ho."
(b) A "sister."
(c) An "arrogant jerk."
(d) A "white woman."

7. What tennis superstar expressed his shock that Serena Williams was able to hold it together after losing the semifinal match in the 2004 Women's U.S. Open?
(a) James Williams.
(b) Andre Agassi.
(c) John McEnroe.
(d) Roger Federer.

8. Where does the school girl attend school in Chapter 1?
(a) The Sts. Philip and James School.
(b) The St. Edwards School.
(c) The PS 242.
(d) The School for the Blind.

9. In Chapter 1, the author begins with the statement, "When you are alone and too tired even to turn on any of your devices, you let yourself linger in" what?
(a) "A past stacked among your pillows."
(b) "Your memory, vessel of your feelings."
(c) "A desperation that you cannot name."
(d) "A white cloud of rain."

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

11. 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?
(a) "Your memory, vessel of your feelings."
(b) "Your belief in a system of justice."
(c) "Your blackness."
(d) "Your ambition and hopes for progress."

12. What word from Chapter 2 means to have commercialized something?
(a) Commodified.
(b) Mollified.
(c) Extradicted.
(d) Codified.

13. What word from Chapter 3 means lacking normal clarity or intelligibility in speech or thought?
(a) Articulate.
(b) Astute.
(c) Incoherent.
(d) Inexorable.

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

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where has Judith Butler taught since 1993?

2. What does the author claim that moaning elicits in Chapter 4?

3. What does the real estate woman repeatedly say to the author's friend when she is showing the author her house in Chapter 3?

4. What does the author describe the passenger in her car telling her in Chapter 1?

5. What does the author's friend say when the author is questioned by the cashier in Chapter 3?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 608 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample