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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 desperation that you cannot name."
(b) "Your memory, vessel of your feelings."
(c) "A past stacked among your pillows."
(d) "A white cloud of rain."

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

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

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?
(a) "Being in a pool of fish."
(b) "Being amongst fellow compatriots."
(c) "Wandering alone in a desert."
(d) "Watching a foreign film without translation."

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

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) Chris Marker.
(b) Sherman James.
(c) Jayson Musson.
(d) Zora Neale Hurston.

7. The author says in Chapter 4 that "truth be told, you could no more control those sighs than" what?
(a) "The oppression of my people."
(b) "You could control your own mind."
(c) "That which brings the sighs about."
(d) "The lies of history."

8. What does the author describe the passenger in her car telling her in Chapter 1?
(a) "That his dean is making him hire a person of color when there are so many great writers out there."
(b) "That his wife is leaving him for the dean with whom she's been having an affair."
(c) "He didn't care for his family or his friends."
(d) "That his work was examining race in America."

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

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

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

12. The author writes in Chapter 2, "For years you attribute to Serena Williams a kind of resilience appropriate only for those who exist" how?
(a) "In loss."
(b) "In isolation."
(c) "In black."
(d) "In celluloid."

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

14. On what airline does the author describe sitting in a window seat in Chapter 1?
(a) American Airlines.
(b) United Airlines.
(c) Delta Airlines.
(d) Pan-Am Airlines.

15. What does the word "denigrate" mean in Chapter 3?
(a) To leave a situation.
(b) To imply.
(c) To criticize unfairly.
(d) To elevate someone.

Short Answer Questions

1. What radio host is cited by the author in Chapter 3 for insulting a women's basketball team with racist slurs in Chapter 3?

2. What word from Chapter 2 means ordinary or everyday?

3. The author writes in Chapter 3, "After considering Butler's remarks, you begin to understand yourself as rendered" what?

4. What does the girl behind the school girl ask her to do when they are taking exams in Chapter 1?

5. What tennis tournament have the Williams sisters boycotted since 2001?

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