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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 6 – 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the case number for "Me v. the United States of America" (20)?
(a) 25-1231.
(b) 09-2606.
(c) 06-5612.
(d) 656-231.

2. The narrator describes himself in the Prologue as a "not-so-proud descendant of" the Mees located where (20)?
(a) Georgia.
(b) Mississippi.
(c) Kentucky.
(d) Arkansas.

3. What is the name of the social psychology bible that the narrator's father took with him to talk down folks in his town?
(a) The Planning of Change.
(b) The Faith and the Fury.
(c) The Path to Enlightenment.
(d) The Blue Future of Life.

4. One member of the Dum Dum Donut Intellectuals discusses his children being assigned what novel to read in school in Chapter 7?
(a) The Sun Also Rises.
(b) To Have and Have Not.
(c) Anne of Green Gables.
(d) Huckleberry Finn.

5. Whose murder in 1964 launched interest and experiments in the bystander effect?
(a) Paul Wilkinson's.
(b) Patricia Smith's.
(c) Sarah Greenway's.
(d) Kitty Genovese's.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the hero of the one comic book that the narrator ever owned?

2. With what Kafka novel does the narrator describe Mapessa covering her face in Chapter 9?

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

4. How is "ABD" defined by the narrator's father in Chapter 1 (36-37)?

5. For what college was the narrator's father the interim dean?

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