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

2. What was the song-and-dance caricature of blacks that developed later into the term "Jim Crow" in referring to African Americans?
(a) "Jump Jim Crow."
(b) "Dance Jim Crow."
(c) "Fighting Jim Crow."
(d) "Black Jim Crow."

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

4. In Chapter 6, the author writes, "He said, I don't know what the water wanted. It wanted to show you" what?
(a) "How strong it was."
(b) "Your own vulnerabilities."
(c) "Your loss."
(d) "No one would come."

5. What literary word employed by the author in Chapter 5 refers to a word that can function by itself as a noun phrase and that refers to either the participants or something else?
(a) Pronoun.
(b) Protagonist.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Gerund.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the author describe the houses in Louisiana during Katrina in Chapter 6?

2. Who were the Jena Six convicted of beating?

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

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

5. On what date was Mark Duggan murdered?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does the author state regarding the Jena Six case in Chapter 6?

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

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

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

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

8. How is the theme of being forgotten explored in Chapter 6?

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

10. How are "words" presented in Chapter 5?

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