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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 16 – 20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator describe in Chapter 20 as "a thirty-minute celebration of the wonders and contributions of the mysterious Caucasian race to the world of leisure" (226)?
(a) "White Day."
(b) "Caucasian Hour."
(c) "Anglo Day."
(d) "Whitey Week."

2. At what time each day on Monday through Friday would Hominy appear by the narrator's truck to segregate Dickens in Chapter 20?
(a) 3:00 p.m.
(b) 2:00 p.m.
(c) 12:00 p.m.
(d) 1:00 p.m.

3. What is the name of the ghetto community on the southern outskirts of Los Angeles where the narrator grew up?
(a) Boardwalk.
(b) Saginaw.
(c) Citrus Heights.
(d) Dickens.

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

5. What was the hero of the one comic book that the narrator ever owned?
(a) Batman.
(b) Aquaman.
(c) Green Lantern.
(d) Superman.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom did the narrator give his last two satsuma mandarins in Chapter 15?

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

3. How old was the narrator when he wrote his first scientific paper called "Passenger Seating Tendencies by Race and Gender"?

4. Who does the narrator refer to as the "Mother of the Modern-Day Civil Rights Movement" in Chapter 10 (127)?

5. When did Charisma Molina's family move to Los Angeles?

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