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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Rankine writes in Chapter 5, "You could build a world out of need or you could" do what?
(a) "Lose need altogether."
(b) "Hold everything black and see."
(c) "Walk forward without looking."
(d) "Stand in silence."

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

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

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

5. What does the author claim "won't attach you to anything no matter how depleted you feel" in Chapter 5?
(a) "Love."
(b) "Revenge."
(c) "History."
(d) "Appetite."

6. Who shot and killed Trayvon Martin?
(a) Chris Marker.
(b) George Zimmerman.
(c) Zora Neale Hurston.
(d) Sherman James.

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

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

9. What does "FEMA" stand for?
(a) The First Emercency Management Agency.
(b) The Financial Emergency Mitigation Agency.
(c) The Federal Emergency Management Agency.
(d) The Federal Extention Management Agency.

10. 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.

11. What does the man point out about his wife when he shows the author a picture of her in Chapter 5?
(a) She is black.
(b) She is white.
(c) She is young.
(d) She is Hispanic.

12. 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 invisible."
(d) "You were nothing."

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did James Craig Anderson work?

2. The author claims in Chapter 5 that "the conversations you have with your eyes translate" what?

3. The author describes the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in Chapter 6, saying that her friend said that the FEMA people all wanted to stay where?

4. The author describes the script in Chapter 6 as being comprised of quotes from what television station?

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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