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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who murdered James Craig Anderson?
(a) Deryl Dedmon.
(b) Jayson Musson.
(c) George Zimmerman.
(d) John Lucas.

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

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

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

7. What color is described repeatedly throughout Chapter 5?
(a) Yellow.
(b) Green.
(c) Red.
(d) Blue.

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

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

10. What word does the author use in Chapter 5 to mean a thing that blocks one's way?
(a) Obstacle.
(b) Reverie.
(c) Attribute.
(d) Protagonist.

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

12. What does the author describe metaphorically in Chapter 5 as "well-oiled doors opening and closing between intention, gesture"?
(a) "Words."
(b) "Politics."
(c) "Performances."
(d) "Actions."

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the author describe the storm carrying her through in Chapter 5?

3. On what date was James Craig Anderson murdered?

4. In "Long Form Birth Certificate" in Chapter 6, the author writes, "All living is listening for" what?

5. 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?

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