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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator describes himself in Chapter 18 as the Afrikaner parliamentarian in Johannesburg in what year?
(a) 1948.
(b) 1929.
(c) 1959.
(d) 1935.

2. What latest public-access show of Foy Cheshire's had just been cancelled in Chapter 19?
(a) Black Talk.
(b) Black Checker.
(c) Black Republic.
(d) Black Stand.

3. Why does the narrator say he was struggling with growing potatoes in Chapter 18?
(a) The climate is too warm.
(b) The climate is too cold.
(c) The climate is too dry.
(d) The climate is too wet.

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

5. What magazine was King Cuz flipping through when the narrator sat next to him at the meeting of the Dum Dum Donut Intellectuals in Chapter 19?
(a) People magazine.
(b) Lowrider magazine.
(c) Life magazine.
(d) New Yorker magazine.

6. What does the narrator say the best apples taste like in Chapter 18?
(a) Candy.
(b) Peaches.
(c) Watermelons.
(d) Oranges.

7. What did Hominy call the opposite of white flight in Chapter 12 (170)?
(a) "Forced integration."
(b) "The Ku Klux influx."
(c) "Reverse gentrification."
(d) "White magnetism."

8. Which of the three signs presented by the narrator was the one that was most chosen by the small-business people of Dickens in Chapter 20 (225)?
(a) "Latino, Asian, and Black Only."
(b) "No Whites Allowed."
(c) "Blacks Only."
(d) "Black, Asian, and Latino Only."

9. What does the narrator say brought all the children of the neighborhood to his yard in Chapter 15?
(a) The smell.
(b) Rumors of money.
(c) The police.
(d) The newspaper headline.

10. What did Foy Cheshire reassign as the name of Uncle Tom's Cabin?
(a) Uncle Jack's Highway.
(b) Uncle Terry's Cabin.
(c) Uncle Tom's Condo.
(d) Uncle Tom's Cabana.

11. When did Charisma Molina's family move to Los Angeles?
(a) 1949.
(b) 1954.
(c) 1935.
(d) 1965.

12. What is described as the sister city to Tel Aviv in "City Lites, An Interlude"?
(a) Juarez.
(b) Paris.
(c) Berlin.
(d) Florence.

13. In the narrator's fantasy in Chapter 17, who does he describe telling Marpessa, "When you see Bonbon, the Cosmic Sellout and your one true love, cast down your panties where you are" (209)?
(a) Rosa Parks.
(b) Malcolm X.
(c) Booker T. Washington.
(d) Martin Luther King, Jr.

14. Where did the narrator's father take him in order to expose him to racism in Chapter 13?
(a) Arkansas.
(b) Alabama.
(c) Mississippi.
(d) Louisiana.

15. Who was the founder of Portland, Oregon?
(a) Erich Maria Remarque.
(b) Jean Piaget.
(c) Jon McJones.
(d) William Overton.

Short Answer Questions

1. What day was it that the narrator set out to go to Dum Dum's in the end of Chapter 18?

2. The narrator describes Foy Cheshire as defiantly marching to his car as if he were leaving where under siege in Chapter 16?

3. What movie does the narrator describe starring Charlie Chaplin and Paulette Goddard in Chapter 14?

4. What free alcoholic beverage was supplied at the meeting of the Dum Dum Donut Intellectuals described by the author in Chapter 19?

5. Where is the long-lost city of Dollersheim located?

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