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

2. What word from Chapter 5 means relating or denoting the writing of letters?
(a) Illusory.
(b) Levity.
(c) Epistolary.
(d) Articulate.

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

4. In Chapter 5, the author writes, "You give yourself back until nothing's left but the dissolving blues of" what?
(a) "Hatred."
(b) "Levity."
(c) "Love."
(d) "Metaphor."

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author describe pouring three bowls of in Chapter 5?

2. What was considered to be the murder weapon in James Craig Anderson's death?

3. The author writes in Chapter 6, "The prison is not a place you enter. It is" what?

4. What does the author describe happening at the drugstore in Chapter 5?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What scenario does the author describe while waiting at a bar of a restaurant in Chapter 5?

2. Why does the author discuss eating cereal in Chapter 5?

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

4. What theme is explored by the author in examining the Trayvon Martin case in Chapter 6?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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