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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many students were in the narrator's graduating class in high school?
(a) Twenty-two.
(b) Sixteen.
(c) One.
(d) Twenty.

2. With what Kafka novel does the narrator describe Mapessa covering her face in Chapter 9?
(a) To Have and Have Not.
(b) Waiting for Godot.
(c) The Stranger.
(d) The Trial.

3. What does the narrator say his father was in Chapter 1?
(a) A social scientist.
(b) An English professor.
(c) A pediatrician.
(d) A history professor.

4. When did the West African nation of Ghana declare independence?
(a) 1935.
(b) 1965.
(c) 1949.
(d) 1957.

5. What word from the Prologue refers to the theory or philosophy of law?
(a) Opulence.
(b) Jurisprudence.
(c) Egalitarianism.
(d) Logic.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what time does the narrator say that Hominy would show up for work each day in Chapter 6?

2. One member of the Dum Dum Donut Intellectuals discusses his children being assigned what novel to read in school in Chapter 7?

3. What does "RTD" stand for (118)?

4. Of "Little Scotty Beckett," the narrator says, "Scotty was a big-eyed Rascal who used to run with" whom, in Chapter 6 (84)?

5. In what key does the narrator say his father spoke in Chapter 1?

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