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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator lay out the three basic laws of in the opening of Chapter 3?
(a) Basketball.
(b) Ghetto physics.
(c) Court appearances.
(d) Racial interactions.

2. In Chapter 9, the narrator says that "history isn't the paper it's printed on" (144). What does he assert history is instead?
(a) Memory.
(b) A dream.
(c) Time's passing.
(d) A people.

3. The narrator describes the black Justice as looking at him with "that crazy, red-eyed penetrating look that back home we call" what (22)?
(a) "The royal stare."
(b) "The Crip-side stare."
(c) "The Willowbrook Avenue Stare."
(d) "The Roosevelt Avenue Stare."

4. How old was Wheezer when he died?
(a) 41.
(b) 19.
(c) 32.
(d) 16.

5. What does the narrator say that L.A. is about in Chapter 9?
(a) Space.
(b) Bigotry.
(c) Faith.
(d) Fumes.

6. What caused Buckwheat's death?
(a) Lymphoma.
(b) Lung cancer.
(c) Cirrhosis of the liver.
(d) Heart attack.

7. How is "ABD" defined by the narrator's father in Chapter 1 (36-37)?
(a) "All But Defeated."
(b) "All But Dead."
(c) "American Board of Dentists."
(d) "All Bewarned and Die."

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

9. Whose theory of cognitive development is cited in Chapter 1?
(a) Robert Forster.
(b) Jean Genet.
(c) Jean Piaget.
(d) James White.

10. How old was Alfalfa when he was shot in the face?
(a) 42.
(b) 59.
(c) 35.
(d) 23.

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

12. For how long did the faked contract read that Hominy had been the narrator's slave when he was emancipated?
(a) Six months.
(b) Three weeks.
(c) Two weeks.
(d) Six years.

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

14. Who did Hominy claim was "the original Little Rascal" (86)?
(a) Spanky.
(b) Alfalafa.
(c) Sunshine Sammy.
(d) Buckwheat.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. At what time does the narrator say he was summoned to appear in court for his hearing in the Prologue?

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

3. Who is the dominatrix that Hominy frequented at the BDSM club?

4. What is King Cuz's real name?

5. What Californian fast food chain does the narrator describe newcomers being fascinated with in Chapter 9?

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