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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What ocean does the author describe "breaking on our heads" in Chapter 5?
(a) The Pacific Ocean.
(b) The Atlantic Ocean.
(c) The Southern Ocean.
(d) The Indian Ocean.

2. What does the author claim that moaning elicits in Chapter 4?
(a) Laughter.
(b) Empathy.
(c) Sorrow.
(d) Pity.

3. 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) "To be found."
(b) "To be loved."
(c) "For history."
(d) "For justice."

4. Who were the Jena Six convicted of beating?
(a) Justin Barker.
(b) Glenn Ligon.
(c) George Zimmerman.
(d) Deryl Dedmon.

5. Where was James Craig Anderson murdered?
(a) Little Rock, Arkansas.
(b) Sarasota, Florida.
(c) Oxford, Mississippi.
(d) Jackson, Mississippi.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What word from Chapter 5 refers to humor or frivolity, especially in the treatment of a serious matter?

4. Rankine opens Chapter 4 with the statement that "To live through the days sometimes you moan like" what?

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?

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