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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What animal does the author describe "surveying movement against the calm, red sky at morning" in Chapter 5?
(a) A bald eagle.
(b) A gray wolf.
(c) A shark.
(d) A red-tailed hawk.

2. In Chapter 6, the author writes, "The days of our childhood together were steep steps into a" what?
(a) "Silent attic."
(b) "Confusing future."
(c) "Lost history."
(d) "Collapsing mind."

3. What does the man point out about his wife when he shows the author a picture of her in Chapter 5?
(a) She is black.
(b) She is Hispanic.
(c) She is young.
(d) She is white.

4. The author writes in Chapter 6, "The prison is not a place you enter. It is" what?
(a) "A hell."
(b) "No place."
(c) "A place you die."
(d) "A silence."

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

6. In Chapter 5, the author writes of a "Blue ceiling calling a body into the midst of" what?
(a) "Azure."
(b) "Freedom."
(c) "Legality."
(d) "Melancholy."

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

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

9. What is the narrator instructed to do after being fingerprinted and stripped in "Stop-and-Frisk" in Chapter 6?
(a) To speak with her lawyer.
(b) To step into the holding cell.
(c) To leave and walk home.
(d) To make a telephone call.

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

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

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

13. Rankine writes in Chapter 5, "You could build a world out of need or you could" do what?
(a) "Lose need altogether."
(b) "Stand in silence."
(c) "Hold everything black and see."
(d) "Walk forward without looking."

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What word in Chapter 5 means to cease resistance to an enemy or opponent and submit to their authority?

2. What word used by the author in Chapter 5 refers to a thing that represents or stands for something else?

3. The author writes in Chapter 5, "Exactly why we survive and can look back with furrowed brow is" what?

4. In Chapter 6, the author writes, "He said, I don't know what the water wanted. It wanted to show you" what?

5. Where did James Craig Anderson work?

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