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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What women's basketball team was insulted by the commentary of a radio host in 2007 during a discussion of the NCAA Women's Basketball Championship?
(a) The Yale University women's basketball team.
(b) The Rutgers University women's basketball team.
(c) The Harvard University women's basketball team.
(d) The Princeton University women's basketball team.

2. 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 is a writer.
(c) Whether she thinks her card will work.
(d) Whether she would like to pay by cash or credit.

3. What word from Chapter 2 means ordinary or everyday?
(a) Elusive.
(b) Arbitrary.
(c) Culinary.
(d) Quotidian.

4. How many bad calls did the umpire detractor make against Serena Williams in her semifinal matchup in 2004?
(a) 7.
(b) 5.
(c) 9.
(d) 2.

5. Where is the author when she describes a man showing her a picture of his wife in Chapter 5?
(a) In her friend's house.
(b) In a seminar meeting.
(c) In a convenient store.
(d) In the bar of a restaurant.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author describe metaphorically in Chapter 5 as "well-oiled doors opening and closing between intention, gesture"?

2. What does the author claim the world says not to wear in the house in Chapter 4?

3. Who is the researcher that came up with the term "John Henryism"?

4. What does the author describe her new therapist specializing in, in Chapter 1?

5. What does the author claim "isn't a cure for feeling, it is a clean displacement of effort, will, and disappointment" in Chapter 4?

(see the answer key)

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