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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 5, "Everyone understood you to be suffering and still everyone thought you thought" what?
(a) "You were the sun."
(b) "You were alone."
(c) "You were nothing."
(d) "You were invisible."

2. In a poetic monologue in Chapter 6, the author writes, "The hearts of my brothers are" what?
(a) "Shining."
(b) "Broken."
(c) "Genuine."
(d) "Healed."

3. On what date was Mark Duggan murdered?
(a) August 4, 2011.
(b) August 29, 2005.
(c) December 4, 2006.
(d) February 26, 2012.

4. On what date did the center of Hurricane Katrina pass southeast of New Orleans, Louisiana?
(a) August 29, 2005.
(b) February 26, 2012.
(c) June 26, 2005.
(d) August 4, 2011.

5. Where was James Craig Anderson murdered?
(a) Jackson, Mississippi.
(b) Sarasota, Florida.
(c) Oxford, Mississippi.
(d) Little Rock, Arkansas.

6. Where does the author solicit the reader to "Join me down here" in Chapter 5?
(a) "In nowhere."
(b) "In history."
(c) "In sorrow."
(d) "In tomorrow."

7. What does the author describe around the collar of her big coat in Chapter 5?
(a) "A wool scarf."
(b) "Fake fur."
(c) "Fancy fur."
(d) "Soft silk."

8. What word used by the author in Chapter 5 refers to a thing that represents or stands for something else?
(a) Protagonist.
(b) Simile.
(c) Symbol.
(d) Metaphor.

9. In "Long Form Birth Certificate" in Chapter 6, the author writes, "All living is listening for" what?
(a) "A throat to open."
(b) "History."
(c) "The world of evil."
(d) "The madman."

10. The author writes in Chapter 6, "My brother is completed by" what?
(a) "Hope."
(b) "Nothing."
(c) "Love."
(d) "Sky."

11. In Chapter 5, the author writes of a "Blue ceiling calling a body into the midst of" what?
(a) "Freedom."
(b) "Melancholy."
(c) "Legality."
(d) "Azure."

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

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

14. How many individuals were indicted for conspiracy of several hate crimes against African Americans, including James Craig Anderson, committed from the spring of 2011 to March 2012?
(a) 10.
(b) 15.
(c) 5.
(d) 3.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What word from Chapter 6 means to represent something as being beautiful?

2. Where is the author when she describes a man showing her a picture of his wife in Chapter 5?

3. Who were the Jena Six convicted of beating?

4. What does the author describe metaphorically in Chapter 5 as "well-oiled doors opening and closing between intention, gesture"?

5. The author writes in Chapter 5, "You begin to move around in search of the steps it will take before you are thrown back into your own body, back into your own need" for what?

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