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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word from Chapter 6 refers to something suitable to become the subject of a lawsuit?
(a) Inexorable.
(b) Litigious.
(c) Levity.
(d) Epistolary.

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

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

4. Where did James Craig Anderson work?
(a) At a Nissan plant.
(b) At a Toyota plant.
(c) At a Ford plant.
(d) At a Chevrolet plant.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the narrator instructed to do after being fingerprinted and stripped in "Stop-and-Frisk" in Chapter 6?

2. The author writes in Chapter 5, "Everyone understood you to be suffering and still everyone thought you thought" what?

3. In Chapter 6, the author writes, "The days of our childhood together were steep steps into a" what?

4. On what date did the beating take place involving the Jena Six?

5. The author writes in Chapter 5, "Yesterday called to say we were together and you were" what?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the author juxtapose the reality of Hurrican Katrina victims with their depiction in the media?

2. What color is explored in Chapter 5? What does this color represent for the author?

3. How does the term "microaggression" apply in Chapter 5?

4. What is an example of irony in Chapter 5? How does this example serve the work?

5. How does the author describe the effects of Hurricane Katrina in Chapter 6?

6. How does the author compare the Rodney King beating and the death of Mark Duggan in Chapter 6?

7. How does the author describe the past in Chapter 5?

8. What is the author referring to when she writes "I was creating a life study of a monumental first person, a Brahmin first person"?

9. What theme is explored when the narrator describes her experience in the drug store in Chapter 5?

10. How does the narrator describe overcoming her inner struggle in the conclusion of Chapter 5?

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