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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. 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) "For history."
(b) "For justice."
(c) "To be loved."
(d) "To be found."

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

6. The author writes in Chapter 5, "Everyone understood you to be suffering and still everyone thought you thought" what?
(a) "You were invisible."
(b) "You were the sun."
(c) "You were nothing."
(d) "You were alone."

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

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

9. What word from Chapter 5 means censored or obscured?
(a) Redacted.
(b) Impelled.
(c) Depleted.
(d) Compelled.

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

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

12. On what date did the center of Hurricane Katrina pass southeast of New Orleans, Louisiana?
(a) June 26, 2005.
(b) February 26, 2012.
(c) August 4, 2011.
(d) August 29, 2005.

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

14. On what date was James Craig Anderson murdered?
(a) February 26, 2012.
(b) June 26, 2011.
(c) August 4, 2011.
(d) August 29, 2005.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

3. What word from Chapter 5 means relating or denoting the writing of letters?

4. What was the song-and-dance caricature of blacks that developed later into the term "Jim Crow" in referring to African Americans?

5. 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?

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