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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What city is described as "the City That Never Stops Bleeding" by the narrator in "City Lites, An Interlude"?
(a) Paris.
(b) Juarez.
(c) Florence.
(d) Berlin.

2. What word from Chapter 18 refers to a tomblike monument to someone buried elsewhere?
(a) Epitaph.
(b) Scrivener.
(c) Monacle.
(d) Cenotaph.

3. How does the narrator translate "Cogito, ergo Boogieum" to English in Chapter 14 (183)?
(a) "I think, therefore I jam."
(b) "I think, therefore I run."
(c) "I think, therere I dance."
(d) "I think, therefore I am."

4. About how many people were at the meeting of the Dum Dum Donut Intellectuals that the narrator describes in Chapter 19?
(a) 30.
(b) 20.
(c) 10.
(d) 15.

5. Where is the long-lost city of Dollersheim located?
(a) France.
(b) Austria.
(c) Italy.
(d) Russia.

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

7. What is referred to by the narrator as "a presigious oceanfront private 'learning fulcrum'" in Chapter 12 (170)?
(a) Smithson Academy.
(b) Intersection Academy.
(c) Wheaton Academy.
(d) Riverdale Academy.

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) "Blacks Only."
(b) "No Whites Allowed."
(c) "Latino, Asian, and Black Only."
(d) "Black, Asian, and Latino Only."

9. What did Marpessa throw at Foy Cheshire, according to the narrator in Chapter 17?
(a) An apple.
(b) A rock.
(c) An orange.
(d) A knife.

10. Why did the narrator's father flee to Canada?
(a) To attain free healthcare.
(b) To dodge the draft.
(c) To escape slavery.
(d) To marry a white woman.

11. What was the latest of Foy Cheshire's novel adaptations that he passed around at the Dum Dum Donut Intellectuals meeting in Chapter 19?
(a) The Cat and the Cancer.
(b) The Adventures of Tom Soarer.
(c) The Dopeman Cometh.
(d) The Mob Gang.

12. What did Foy Cheshire rename The Iceman Cometh?
(a) The White-Man Cometh.
(b) The Ice-tea Cometh.
(c) The Gangsta Cometh.
(d) The Dopeman Cometh.

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

14. When was the movie set for The Ten Commandments buried under the Nipomo Dunes?
(a) 1915.
(b) 1932.
(c) 1945.
(d) 1923.

15. To whom did the narrator give his last two satsuma mandarins in Chapter 15?
(a) King Cuz.
(b) Marpessa.
(c) Sheila Clark.
(d) Charisma.

Short Answer Questions

1. By what name does the narrator say he calls his marijuana in Chapter 11?

2. What is described as the sister city to Tel Aviv in "City Lites, An Interlude"?

3. 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?

4. The narrator asserts in Chapter 17 that "In the history of American black people, there have been only two with the complete inability to tell a joke" (205). Who, aside from the narrator's father is unable to tell a joke?

5. What is the name of the only movie theater in Dickens?

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