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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 the sun."
(b) "You were nothing."
(c) "You were alone."
(d) "You were invisible."

2. What word from Chapter 5 means censored or obscured?
(a) Impelled.
(b) Redacted.
(c) Depleted.
(d) Compelled.

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

4. On what date was Mark Duggan murdered?
(a) August 4, 2011.
(b) December 4, 2006.
(c) August 29, 2005.
(d) February 26, 2012.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What word used by the author in Chapter 5 refers to a thing that represents or stands for something else?

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

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

4. What ocean does the author describe "breaking on our heads" in Chapter 5?

5. What does the author describe holding in her hand as she leans against the sink in the end of Chapter 5?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What does the author say regarding questions and answers in Chapter 6?

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

10. How is the theme of the pain of prejudice explored in Chapter 6?

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