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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 3 – 4 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author describe the passenger in her car telling her in Chapter 1?
(a) "That his dean is making him hire a person of color when there are so many great writers out there."
(b) "He didn't care for his family or his friends."
(c) "That his work was examining race in America."
(d) "That his wife is leaving him for the dean with whom she's been having an affair."

2. Rankine opens Chapter 4 with the statement that "To live through the days sometimes you moan like" what?
(a) "Slaves."
(b) "Children."
(c) "Sheep."
(d) "Deer."

3. What does the world say about memory and the past, according to the author in Chapter 4?
(a) To question it.
(b) To analyze it.
(c) To forget it.
(d) To embrace it.

4. In Chapter 3, the author writes, "Someone in the audience asks the man promoting his new book on humor what makes something funny. His answer is what you expect." What is the answer he gives?
(a) "Irony."
(b) "Character."
(c) "Context."
(d) "Gravity."

5. What artist stenciled the line "I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background" on canvas, transforming the words into abstractions?
(a) Sherman James.
(b) Chris Marker.
(c) Jayson Musson.
(d) Glenn Ligon.

Short Answer Questions

1. What phrase is repeated in the first of the prints displayed in Chapter 3?

2. The author claims in Chapter 3 that "Language that feels hurtful is intended to exploit all the ways that you are" what?

3. Who is the "distinguished tennis chair umpire" described in Chapter 2 as "the most notorious of Serena's detractors"?

4. What phrase is repeated in the second of the prints that is displayed in Chapter 3?

5. Where does the author describe rushing to meet a friend in the beginning of Chapter 3?

(see the answer key)

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