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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word from Chapter 4 refers to a sentimental longing for the past?
(a) Cultivation.
(b) Allusion.
(c) Recompense.
(d) Nostalgia.

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

3. 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) Andre Agassi.
(b) James Williams.
(c) John McEnroe.
(d) Roger Federer.

4. 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) Howard Stern.
(b) Glenn Ligon.
(c) Alex Jones.
(d) Don Imus.

5. How many bad calls did the umpire detractor make against Serena Williams in her semifinal matchup in 2004?
(a) 5.
(b) 9.
(c) 2.
(d) 7.

6. Whom does the author cite with the quote in Chapter 2, "I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background"?
(a) Jayson Musson.
(b) Chris Marker.
(c) Zora Neale Hurston.
(d) Sherman James.

7. According to the world's view, the author says in Chapter 4, "No one should adhere to the facts that contribute to" what?
(a) "Redemption."
(b) "Politics."
(c) "Narrative."
(d) "Deception."

8. The author claims in Chapter 1, "A friend argues that Americans battle between the 'historical self' and" what?
(a) "The need for power."
(b) "The 'future self.'"
(c) "The 'cultural self.'"
(d) "The 'self self.'"

9. What does the author claim that moaning elicits in Chapter 4?
(a) Sorrow.
(b) Laughter.
(c) Empathy.
(d) Pity.

10. What phrase is repeated in the second of the prints that is displayed in Chapter 3?
(a) "Your memory, vessel of your feelings."
(b) "The meaning of life."
(c) "A past stacked among your pillows."
(d) "I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background."

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

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

13. 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) "Addressable."
(b) "Superior."
(c) "Angry."
(d) "Frightened."

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

15. How many police cars arrived when the author's friend was harassed while babysitting for her in Chapter 1?
(a) 6.
(b) 2.
(c) 4.
(d) 10.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Serena Williams's sister?

2. What does the author describe the man at the cash register asking her in Chapter 3?

3. What does the author describe her friend calling her because she is late in the beginning of Chapter 3?

4. 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?

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

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