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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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."

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

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

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

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

6. 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) "Your loss."
(d) "No one would come."

7. 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?
(a) In Arkansas.
(b) In Texas.
(c) In Missouri.
(d) In Georgia.

8. Who is cited as saying that "skin color cannot be more important than the human being" in Chapter 6?
(a) Deryl Dedmon.
(b) Glenn Ligon.
(c) John Lucas.
(d) James Baldwin.

9. How does the author describe the houses in Louisiana during Katrina in Chapter 6?
(a) As crumbling structures.
(b) As ghosts.
(c) As mumbling structures.
(d) As tumbling structures.

10. 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) 5.
(c) 3.
(d) 15.

11. What word from Chapter 5 refers to a state of being pleasantly lost in one's thoughts?
(a) Compulsion.
(b) Epistolary.
(c) Levity.
(d) Reverie.

12. What was considered to be the murder weapon in James Craig Anderson's death?
(a) A truck.
(b) A rope.
(c) A knife.
(d) A gun.

13. What does the author describe pouring three bowls of in Chapter 5?
(a) Water.
(b) Rice.
(c) Pudding.
(d) Cereal.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. On what dates does the author cite for the section titled "In Memory of Trayvon Martin" in Chapter 6?

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

4. The author asks of the reader in Chapter 6 of the victims of Hurricane Katrina, "Have you seen their" what?

5. The author writes in Chapter 5, "Yesterday called to say we were together and you were" what?

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