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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who were the Jena Six convicted of beating?
(a) Deryl Dedmon.
(b) Glenn Ligon.
(c) George Zimmerman.
(d) Justin Barker.

2. What is the narrator instructed to do after being fingerprinted and stripped in "Stop-and-Frisk" in Chapter 6?
(a) To speak with her lawyer.
(b) To make a telephone call.
(c) To leave and walk home.
(d) To step into the holding cell.

3. What word from Chapter 6 means to represent something as being beautiful?
(a) Inflect.
(b) Reverie.
(c) Aestheticize.
(d) Redact.

4. On what date was Mark Duggan murdered?
(a) August 29, 2005.
(b) August 4, 2011.
(c) December 4, 2006.
(d) February 26, 2012.

5. The author writes in Chapter 6, "In a landscape drawn from an ocean bed, you can't drive yourself" what?
(a) "Sane."
(b) "Insane."
(c) "To revenge."
(d) "To love."

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author describe holding in her hand as she leans against the sink in the end of Chapter 5?

2. What word from Chapter 6 refers to something suitable to become the subject of a lawsuit?

3. What word used by the author in Chapter 5 refers to a thing that represents or stands for something else?

4. Where is the author when she describes a man showing her a picture of his wife in Chapter 5?

5. The author writes in Chapter 5, "You begin to move around in search of the steps it will take before you are thrown back into your own body, back into your own need" for what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What theme is explored by the author in examining the Trayvon Martin case in Chapter 6?

2. What is an example of irony in Chapter 5? How does this example serve the work?

3. What does the author say regarding questions and answers in Chapter 6?

4. What scenario does the author present when an unnamed man is arrested in Chapter 6?

5. How is the theme of the pain of prejudice explored in Chapter 6?

6. What scenario does the author describe while waiting at a bar of a restaurant in Chapter 5?

7. How is the theme of anger explored in Chapter 6?

8. What theme is explored when the narrator describes her experience in the drug store in Chapter 5?

9. How does the author's language and narrative style change in Chapter 5?

10. How are "words" presented in Chapter 5?

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