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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author's friend say when the author is questioned by the cashier in Chapter 3?
(a) Nothing.
(b) "Back off."
(c) "What is your problem?"
(d) "Who are you to ask?"

2. The author writes in Chapter 5, "Everyone understood you to be suffering and still everyone thought you thought" what?
(a) "You were nothing."
(b) "You were the sun."
(c) "You were alone."
(d) "You were invisible."

3. What does the author describe her new therapist specializing in, in Chapter 1?
(a) Trauma counseling.
(b) Marriage counseling.
(c) Family counseling.
(d) Anxiety disorders.

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

5. The author says in Chapter 4 that "truth be told, you could no more control those sighs than" what?
(a) "You could control your own mind."
(b) "The oppression of my people."
(c) "That which brings the sighs about."
(d) "The lies of history."

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the "woman with multiple degrees" say she didn't know black women could get, 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. What does the author claim "the destination" is in Chapter 5?

4. What does the author refer to "doubt" as in Chapter 1?

5. How many bad calls did the umpire detractor make against Serena Williams in her semifinal matchup in 2004?

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