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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 21 – Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word from Chapter 15 means cheerful and full of energy?
(a) Nepotistic.
(b) Perspicacity.
(c) Monolithic.
(d) Ebullient.

2. What does the narrator say has more "motion of the ocean" than him in Chapter 17 (201)?
(a) "A cotton-picking slave."
(b) "A pier overlooking the sea."
(c) "A plate of day-old sashimi."
(d) "A fat man in a flat boat."

3. When was the town where the narrator grew up founded?
(a) 1895.
(b) 1868.
(c) 1799.
(d) 1855.

4. How does the narrator describe the closing of the letter that summoned him to the Supreme Court in the Prologue?
(a) Sincerely yours, The President of the United States of America.
(b) Sincerely yours, The Congress of the United States of America.
(c) Sincerely yours, The Senate of the United States of America.
(d) Sincerely yours, The People of the United States of America.

5. To what Shakespearean play does the narrator compare the Little Rascals in Chapter 6?
(a) Hamlet.
(b) All's Well that Ends Well.
(c) The Taming of the Shrew.
(d) Macbeth.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the marijuana strain that the narrator describes sharing with the strangers at Hood Day in Chapter 21?

2. What does the narrator claim to listen to recordings of when he has trouble sleeping in Chapter 1?

3. What does the narrator claim is the "calling card of the Chickasaw nation" (10)?

4. What is Stage I of the narrator's father's theory of Quintessential Blackness?

5. The narrator describes the black Justice as looking at him with "that crazy, red-eyed penetrating look that back home we call" what (22)?

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