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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who were the Jena Six convicted of beating?
(a) George Zimmerman.
(b) Deryl Dedmon.
(c) Justin Barker.
(d) Glenn Ligon.

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

4. The author describes "the past" as a life sentence and uses what metaphor to describe it in Chapter 5?
(a) "A car rolling down a mountain."
(b) "A pillow where you lay your head."
(c) "A blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow."
(d) "A sharp arrow shooting backward."

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

6. The author writes in Chapter 5, "Yesterday called to say we were together and you were" what?
(a) "Waiting."
(b) "Bloodshot."
(c) "Lost."
(d) "Broken."

7. The author claims in Chapter 5, "Listen, you, I was creating a life study of" what?
(a) "A clown."
(b) "Our ancestors."
(c) "An alienated and unkind soul."
(d) "A monumental first person."

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

9. The author asks of the reader in Chapter 6 of the victims of Hurricane Katrina, "Have you seen their" what?
(a) "Loss."
(b) "Homes."
(c) "Faces."
(d) "Destiny."

10. On what date did the beating take place involving the Jena Six?
(a) August 29, 2005.
(b) February 26, 2012.
(c) December 4, 2006.
(d) August 4, 2011.

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

12. What does the author describe the storm carrying her through in Chapter 5?
(a) The forest.
(b) The desert.
(c) Dusk.
(d) Dawn.

13. Where did James Craig Anderson work?
(a) At a Ford plant.
(b) At a Toyota plant.
(c) At a Chevrolet plant.
(d) At a Nissan plant.

14. What ocean does the author describe "breaking on our heads" in Chapter 5?
(a) The Pacific Ocean.
(b) The Indian Ocean.
(c) The Atlantic Ocean.
(d) The Southern Ocean.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Rankine writes in Chapter 5, "You could build a world out of need or you could" do what?

3. The author writes in Chapter 6, "In a landscape drawn from an ocean bed, you can't drive yourself" what?

4. What is the narrator instructed to do after being fingerprinted and stripped in "Stop-and-Frisk" in Chapter 6?

5. What does the ocean do regarding the "blues it can't absorb" in Chapter 5?

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