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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Trayvon Martin born?
(a) 1990.
(b) 1999.
(c) 1995.
(d) 1992.

2. Where is the author when she describes a man showing her a picture of his wife in Chapter 5?
(a) In a seminar meeting.
(b) In the bar of a restaurant.
(c) In her friend's house.
(d) In a convenient store.

3. In Chapter 6, the author writes, "He said, I don't know what the water wanted. It wanted to show you" what?
(a) "Your loss."
(b) "No one would come."
(c) "How strong it was."
(d) "Your own vulnerabilities."

4. The author describes the script in Chapter 6 as being comprised of quotes from what television station?
(a) MSNBC.
(b) ABC News.
(c) CNN.
(d) FOX News.

5. With whom was the collaboration for the script described in Chapter 6?
(a) Sherman James.
(b) Jennifer Capriati.
(c) Chris Marker.
(d) John Lucas.

6. What animal does the author describe "surveying movement against the calm, red sky at morning" in Chapter 5?
(a) A red-tailed hawk.
(b) A bald eagle.
(c) A shark.
(d) A gray wolf.

7. What is the narrator instructed to do after being fingerprinted and stripped in "Stop-and-Frisk" in Chapter 6?
(a) To speak with her lawyer.
(b) To leave and walk home.
(c) To step into the holding cell.
(d) To make a telephone call.

8. In the poetic section titled "Stop-and-Frisk" in Chapter 6, the author writes that "the charge the officer decided on was exhibition of" what?
(a) "Guilt."
(b) "Speed."
(c) "Rage."
(d) "Intoxication."

9. The author writes in Chapter 6, "In a landscape drawn from an ocean bed, you can't drive yourself" what?
(a) "To love."
(b) "To revenge."
(c) "Insane."
(d) "Sane."

10. The author writes in Chapter 6, "The prison is not a place you enter. It is" what?
(a) "No place."
(b) "A place you die."
(c) "A silence."
(d) "A hell."

11. What does the author describe holding in her hand as she leans against the sink in the end of Chapter 5?
(a) A gun.
(b) Red wine.
(c) A dishrag.
(d) A plate of food.

12. What word from Chapter 5 refers to humor or frivolity, especially in the treatment of a serious matter?
(a) Levity.
(b) Allusion.
(c) Irony.
(d) Cultivation.

13. What does the author tell the reader not to lean against in Chapter 5?
(a) The peeling paint.
(b) The fence.
(c) The wallpaper.
(d) The judge.

14. Chapter 6 is described by the author as a script for what?
(a) A situation video.
(b) A web series.
(c) A docu-drama.
(d) An historical play.

15. In Chapter 6, the author says, "The fiction of the facts assumes innocence, ignorance, lack of intention" and what else?
(a) "Misdirection."
(b) "Ambition."
(c) "Corruption."
(d) "Education."

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Long Form Birth Certificate" in Chapter 6, the author writes, "All living is listening for" what?

2. What does the man point out about his wife when he shows the author a picture of her in Chapter 5?

3. What does the author claim "the destination" is in Chapter 5?

4. What was considered to be the murder weapon in James Craig Anderson's death?

5. What word used in Chapter 5 refers to a caste in Hinduism specializing as priests, teachers, and protectors of sacred learning?

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