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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. For whom did Chubsy-Ubsy have an unrequited love?
(a) Miss Darla.
(b) Miss Constance.
(c) Miss Crabtree.
(d) Miss Anna Marie.
2. When was the town where the narrator grew up founded?
(a) 1799.
(b) 1855.
(c) 1868.
(d) 1895.
3. How did Pete the Pup die?
(a) Brain aneuryism.
(b) He choked on a bottle lid.
(c) He swallowed an alarm clock.
(d) Cancer.
4. What word from the Prologue refers to the theory or philosophy of law?
(a) Logic.
(b) Egalitarianism.
(c) Jurisprudence.
(d) Opulence.
5. How does the narrator describe the closing of the letter that summoned him to the Supreme Court in the Prologue?
(a) Sincerely yours, The President of the United States of America.
(b) Sincerely yours, The People of the United States of America.
(c) Sincerely yours, The Congress of the United States of America.
(d) Sincerely yours, The Senate of the United States of America.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the name of the BDSM club on the Westside where the narrator contracted to dole out Hominy's punishments for him?
2. Who wrote All Quiet on the Western Front?
3. What does the narrator say "ain't easy" just like "pimpin' ain't easy" in the opening of Chapter 6 (80)?
4. For what musician does the narrator claim to have a strange affinity in Chapter 1?
5. What is King Cuz's real name?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does the narrator remark about mottos in the Prologue?
2. How is Hominy Jenkins described by the narrator?
3. Who is Hampton Fiske and how is he described?
4. Why does Foy Cheshire reimagine and adapt classic novels like Huckleberry Finn?
5. What is the definition of satire and how does satire apply to The Sellout?
6. How does the narrator describe Hominy's birthday celebration?
7. What are the three basic laws of ghetto physics that the narrator describes in Chapter 3?
8. What setting is established in the novel's Prologue? How is it described?
9. When and where do the Dum Dum Donut Intellectuals meet?
10. What happened when the narrator's father attempted an experiment on bystander syndrome when the narrator was a child?
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