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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What word from Chapter 6 means to represent something as being beautiful?
(a) Reverie.
(b) Aestheticize.
(c) Redact.
(d) Inflect.

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 loss."
(b) "How strong it was."
(c) "Your own vulnerabilities."
(d) "No one would come."

5. What word in Chapter 5 means to cease resistance to an enemy or opponent and submit to their authority?
(a) Reverie.
(b) Convoke.
(c) Surrender.
(d) Evoke.

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

7. The author writes in Chapter 5, "Someone claimed we should use our skin as" what?
(a) "Revenge."
(b) "A blanket."
(c) "Protection."
(d) "Wallpaper."

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

9. The author claims in Chapter 5 that "the conversations you have with your eyes translate" what?
(a) "A shiny skyscraper."
(b) "A white cloud of rain."
(c) "A desperation that you cannot name."
(d) "Everything and nothing."

10. Where was Trayvon Martin killed?
(a) Gainesville, Florida.
(b) Miami, Florida.
(c) Pensacola, Florida.
(d) Sanford, Florida.

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

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

13. What word from Chapter 5 means relating or denoting the writing of letters?
(a) Articulate.
(b) Illusory.
(c) Levity.
(d) Epistolary.

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

15. 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 Georgia.
(b) In Arkansas.
(c) In Missouri.
(d) In Texas.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who were the Jena Six convicted of beating?

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

3. 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?

4. In Chapter 6, the author writes, "The days of our childhood together were steep steps into a" what?

5. In a poetic monologue in Chapter 6, the author writes, "The hearts of my brothers are" what?

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