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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator refer to Hominy as he accompanied him in driving around town in Chapter 20?
(a) An "African-American Igor."
(b) An "African-American Marco Polo."
(c) An "African-American Paul Revere."
(d) An "African-American Frankenstein."

2. What did Foy Cheshire retitle The Great Gatsby as?
(a) The Great Gary.
(b) The Great Contraption.
(c) The Great Blacksby.
(d) The Great Emancipation.

3. Who is the City Match Consultant that called the narrator about his application with Dickens?
(a) Curtis Baxter.
(b) Jean Piaget.
(c) Susan Silverman.
(d) Charisma Molina.

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?
(a) Bill Cosby.
(b) Napoleon Bonaparte.
(c) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(d) Malcolm X.

5. What diagnosis did Marpessa determine for the narrator when he was 18?
(a) Bipolar Disorder.
(b) Depressive Disorder.
(c) Attachment Disorder.
(d) Social Anxiety Disorder.

6. What is Foy Cheshire's definition of WME in Chapter 19?
(a) Weapon of Mass Education.
(b) Weapon of Mass Emasculation.
(c) Weapon of Mass Endowment.
(d) Weapon of Mass Enlightenment.

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

8. The narrator describes Foy Cheshire as defiantly marching to his car as if he were leaving where under siege in Chapter 16?
(a) The Philippines.
(b) North Korea.
(c) Vietnam.
(d) South Korea.

9. What movie does the narrator describe starring Charlie Chaplin and Paulette Goddard in Chapter 14?
(a) Green Lantern.
(b) The Great Dictator.
(c) The Kid.
(d) Modern Times.

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

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

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

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

14. 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.

15. How much older is Nestor Lopez than the narrator?
(a) Two years older.
(b) Three years older.
(c) Four years older.
(d) Ten years older.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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)?

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

3. When did the Northridge quake occur that collapsed the roof of the school auditorium where the narrator demonstrated castrating a calf?

4. 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)?

5. Why does the narrator say he was struggling with growing potatoes in Chapter 18?

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