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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author writes in Chapter 3, "After considering Butler's remarks, you begin to understand yourself as rendered" what?
(a) "Infuriated by the examples of injustice."
(b) "Hyper-visible in the face of such language acts."
(c) "Entrapped by the fact of race."
(d) "Silent by the greed of others."

2. What word in Chapter 4 refers to a contemplative person?
(a) Valedictorian.
(b) Ruminant.
(c) Sycophant.
(d) Allegiant.

3. What does the author describe her new therapist specializing in, in Chapter 1?
(a) Family counseling.
(b) Trauma counseling.
(c) Marriage counseling.
(d) Anxiety disorders.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

12. Rankine opens Chapter 4 with the statement that "To live through the days sometimes you moan like" what?
(a) "Sheep."
(b) "Deer."
(c) "Slaves."
(d) "Children."

13. 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) "Your memory, vessel of your feelings."
(d) "I do not always feel colored."

14. Who is the "distinguished tennis chair umpire" described in Chapter 2 as "the most notorious of Serena's detractors"?
(a) Mariana Alves.
(b) Zora Neale Hurston.
(c) Jayson Musson.
(d) Chris Marker.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. 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?

3. 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?

4. How many bad calls did the umpire detractor make against Serena Williams in her semifinal matchup in 2004?

5. The author writes in Chapter 4 that the past has "turned your flesh into its own" what?

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