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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 word in Chapter 4 refers to a contemplative person?
(a) Allegiant.
(b) Valedictorian.
(c) Sycophant.
(d) Ruminant.

2. What word from Chapter 4 refers to a sentimental longing for the past?
(a) Nostalgia.
(b) Allusion.
(c) Cultivation.
(d) Recompense.

3. What does the author describe the man at the cash register asking her in Chapter 3?
(a) Whether she will be dining in.
(b) Whether she would like to pay by cash or credit.
(c) Whether she thinks her card will work.
(d) Whether she is a writer.

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

5. What phrase is repeated in the first of the prints displayed in Chapter 3?
(a) "Get you to Heaven."
(b) "Your memory, vessel of your feelings."
(c) "I do not always feel colored."
(d) "A past stacked among your pillows."

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author describe buying from the cashier when out with her friend in Chapter 3?

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

3. What does the word "iterate" mean in Chapter 4?

4. The author claims in Chapter 1, "A friend argues that Americans battle between the 'historical self' and" what?

5. Where does the author describe being when she confronts a man for calling a group of teenagers "niggers" in Chapter 1?

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