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

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

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

4. What does the author claim "the destination" is in Chapter 5?
(a) Redacted.
(b) Illusory.
(c) Inexorable.
(d) Incoherent.

5. The author writes in Chapter 6, "My brother is completed by" what?
(a) "Love."
(b) "Nothing."
(c) "Sky."
(d) "Hope."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

15. What does "FEMA" stand for?
(a) The Federal Extention Management Agency.
(b) The First Emercency Management Agency.
(c) The Federal Emergency Management Agency.
(d) The Financial Emergency Mitigation Agency.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author claims in Chapter 5 that "the conversations you have with your eyes translate" what?

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

3. Who is cited as saying that "skin color cannot be more important than the human being" in Chapter 6?

4. What word from Chapter 6 refers to something suitable to become the subject of a lawsuit?

5. In Chapter 6, the author says, "The fiction of the facts assumes innocence, ignorance, lack of intention" and what else?

(see the answer keys)

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