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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "City Lites: An Interlude" – Chapter 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator lay out the three basic laws of in the opening of Chapter 3?
(a) Ghetto physics.
(b) Court appearances.
(c) Basketball.
(d) Racial interactions.

2. What did Foy Cheshire retitle The Great Gatsby as?
(a) The Great Contraption.
(b) The Great Emancipation.
(c) The Great Blacksby.
(d) The Great Gary.

3. What does "RTD" stand for (118)?
(a) Rapid Transit District.
(b) Railway Transport Department.
(c) Road Transportation Department.
(d) Road Transfer Division.

4. What is the name of Charisma Molina's mother?
(a) Anna Molina.
(b) Sally Molina.
(c) Delores Molina.
(d) Maria Molina.

5. What city is described as "the City That Never Stops Bleeding" by the narrator in "City Lites, An Interlude"?
(a) Florence.
(b) Paris.
(c) Berlin.
(d) Juarez.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator translate "Cogito, ergo Boogieum" to English in Chapter 14 (183)?

2. What does the narrator say that L.A. is about in Chapter 9?

3. What word used in the Prologue is an adjective describing a person who is optimistic regardless of the circumstances?

4. In Chapter 9, the narrator says that "history isn't the paper it's printed on" (144). What does he assert history is instead?

5. Where does the narrator say he had to go in order to track down Cipriano "Candy" Marinez after he tried to flee his abusive family on horseback?

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