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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. The author writes in Chapter 5, "Everyone understood you to be suffering and still everyone thought you thought" what?
(a) "You were alone."
(b) "You were invisible."
(c) "You were nothing."
(d) "You were the sun."

2. The author writes in Chapter 5, "You begin to move around in search of the steps it will take before you are thrown back into your own body, back into your own need" for what?
(a) "For justice."
(b) "To be found."
(c) "For history."
(d) "To be loved."

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

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

5. The author describes the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in Chapter 6, saying that her friend said that the FEMA people all wanted to stay where?
(a) In Missouri.
(b) In Arkansas.
(c) In Georgia.
(d) In Texas.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who were the Jena Six convicted of beating?

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

3. Where is the author when she describes a man showing her a picture of his wife in Chapter 5?

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

5. What word from Chapter 6 means to represent something as being beautiful?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the author's language and narrative style change in Chapter 5?

2. What scenario does the author present when an unnamed man is arrested in Chapter 6?

3. What are some examples of imagery (simile, metaphor, etc.) in Chapter 5?

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

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

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

7. How is the theme of anger explored in Chapter 6?

8. What does Hurricane Katrina symbolize for the author?

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

10. What assertions does the author make regarding the James Craig Anderson incident in Chapter 6?

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