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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What color is described repeatedly throughout Chapter 5?
(a) Red.
(b) Yellow.
(c) Blue.
(d) Green.

2. What phrase does the author describe trying to stamp from her mind in Chapter 6?
(a) "An ideal to attain."
(b) "Faith, not fear."
(c) "Speak softly and carry a big stick."
(d) "A cautionary warning."

3. What does the ocean do regarding the "blues it can't absorb" in Chapter 5?
(a) It flees.
(b) It blushes.
(c) It hides.
(d) It shivers.

4. What does the author claim "the destination" is in Chapter 5?
(a) Incoherent.
(b) Illusory.
(c) Inexorable.
(d) Redacted.

5. The author writes in Chapter 5, "Exactly why we survive and can look back with furrowed brow is" what?
(a) "Meaningful."
(b) "Inexorable."
(c) "Elusive."
(d) "Beyond me."

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

7. In Chapter 6, the author writes, "The days of our childhood together were steep steps into a" what?
(a) "Collapsing mind."
(b) "Confusing future."
(c) "Silent attic."
(d) "Lost history."

8. What word used in Chapter 5 refers to a caste in Hinduism specializing as priests, teachers, and protectors of sacred learning?
(a) Shudra.
(b) Vaishya.
(c) Kshatriya.
(d) Brahmin.

9. What does the author describe happening at the drugstore in Chapter 5?
(a) Her friend slips and falls.
(b) A man breaks in line ahead of her.
(c) She is falsely arrested.
(d) Her card is declined.

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

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

12. In Chapter 5, the author writes, "You give yourself back until nothing's left but the dissolving blues of" what?
(a) "Love."
(b) "Levity."
(c) "Metaphor."
(d) "Hatred."

13. 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?
(a) "To be found."
(b) "For history."
(c) "To be loved."
(d) "For justice."

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

15. What literary word employed by the author in Chapter 5 refers to a word that can function by itself as a noun phrase and that refers to either the participants or something else?
(a) Protagonist.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Gerund.
(d) Pronoun.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author describe pouring three bowls of in Chapter 5?

2. What does "FEMA" stand for?

3. The author describes "the past" as a life sentence and uses what metaphor to describe it in Chapter 5?

4. What word from Chapter 6 refers to something suitable to become the subject of a lawsuit?

5. Where was Trayvon Martin killed?

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