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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the girl who sits behind the protagonist in the school room in Chapter 1?
(a) Mary Catherine.
(b) Michelle.
(c) Sarah Anne.
(d) Maria.

2. What does the "woman with multiple degrees" say she didn't know black women could get, in Chapter 3?
(a) Cancer.
(b) The flu.
(c) Tuberculosis.
(d) Jobs.

3. Where has Judith Butler taught since 1993?
(a) New York University.
(b) The University of Illinois, Chicago.
(c) Princeton University.
(d) The University of California, Berkeley.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the world say about memory and the past, according to the author in Chapter 4?

2. With whom was the collaboration for the script described in Chapter 6?

3. What does the author describe pouring three bowls of in Chapter 5?

4. Who wrote the following quotation that opens the book: "If they don't see happiness in the picture, at least they'll see the black"?

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?

(see the answer key)

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