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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author writes in Chapter 6, "In a landscape drawn from an ocean bed, you can't drive yourself" what?
(a) "To love."
(b) "Insane."
(c) "To revenge."
(d) "Sane."

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What does the author tell the reader not to lean against in Chapter 5?
(a) The peeling paint.
(b) The fence.
(c) The judge.
(d) The wallpaper.

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

10. Who were the Jena Six convicted of beating?
(a) Deryl Dedmon.
(b) Justin Barker.
(c) Glenn Ligon.
(d) George Zimmerman.

11. When was Trayvon Martin born?
(a) 1999.
(b) 1995.
(c) 1992.
(d) 1990.

12. In a poetic monologue in Chapter 6, the author writes, "The hearts of my brothers are" what?
(a) "Healed."
(b) "Broken."
(c) "Genuine."
(d) "Shining."

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

14. The author writes in Chapter 5, "Yesterday called to say we were together and you were" what?
(a) "Broken."
(b) "Waiting."
(c) "Bloodshot."
(d) "Lost."

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Rankine writes in Chapter 5, "You could build a world out of need or you could" do what?

2. What word does the author use in Chapter 5 to mean a thing that blocks one's way?

3. In Chapter 5, the author writes of a "Blue ceiling calling a body into the midst of" what?

4. Chapter 6 is described by the author as a script for what?

5. The author describes "the past" as a life sentence and uses what metaphor to describe it in Chapter 5?

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