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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 23 mean the ability to produce a desired or intended result?
(a) Efficacy.
(b) Jurisprudence.
(c) Perspicacity.
(d) Ebullient.

2. What is described in Chapter 23 as "Foy Cheshire's latest reimagined multicultural text" (253)?
(a) The Dopeman Cometh.
(b) Uncle Tom's Condo.
(c) Me Talk White One Day.
(d) Of Rice and Yen.

3. What word from the novel refers to something formed of a single large block of stone?
(a) Archaic.
(b) Epistolarian.
(c) Monolithic.
(d) Magnetic.

4. What is Stage I of the narrator's father's theory of Quintessential Blackness?
(a) The Autocratic Negro.
(b) The Autodidactic Negro.
(c) The Neophyte Negro.
(d) Capital B Black.

5. What does the narrator claim is the "black workingman's motto" in the Prologue (20)?
(a) "The cream rises to the top."
(b) "Out of sight, out of mind."
(c) "Harder and faster."
(d) "Work buys freedom."

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator presume to be Topsy's real name in Chapter 22?

2. What was the latest of Foy Cheshire's novel adaptations that he passed around at the Dum Dum Donut Intellectuals meeting in Chapter 19?

3. The narrator describes himself in Chapter 18 as the Afrikaner parliamentarian in Johannesburg in what year?

4. What is Foy Cheshire's definition of WME in Chapter 19?

5. How does the narrator refer to Hominy as he accompanied him in driving around town in Chapter 20?

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