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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. What does the narrator say has more "motion of the ocean" than him in Chapter 17 (201)?
(a) "A cotton-picking slave."
(b) "A plate of day-old sashimi."
(c) "A fat man in a flat boat."
(d) "A pier overlooking the sea."

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

3. Where was Oscar Zocalo lab partners with the narrator?
(a) Harvard.
(b) Henderson.
(c) Yale.
(d) Riverside.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the narrator say he had to go in order to track down Cipriano "Candy" Marinez after he tried to flee his abusive family on horseback?

2. Who directed the film The Ten Commandments?

3. What latest public-access show of Foy Cheshire's had just been cancelled in Chapter 19?

4. The narrator describes his "usual postcoital position" as "rolled up into a ball like" what, in Chapter 17 (202)?

5. The narrator asserts in Chapter 18 that "the university apple orchards in Geneva, New York, are to the black market apple trade what Medellin, Columbia, is to" what (212)?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the narrator's satsuma tree employed as a symbol in the novel?

2. Who is Charisma Molina and what is her profession?

3. What does the apple tree symbolize in Chapter 18?

4. What does Marpessa demonstrate on Career Day at the Chaff Middle School?

5. What is Wheaton Academy and what role does it play in the plot of The Sellout?

6. How does the narrator respond to the autographed book he receives in Chapter 19? What is the book?

7. Where does the narrator describe his father taking him in order to show him that racism still exists?

8. What actions does the narrator describe taking with Hominy in order to restore segregation in Dickens in Chapter 20?

9. How does the narrator respond to Hominy's suggestions for new class systems in Dickens in Chapter 18?

10. Why have the three cities that Dickens matched with refused to be sister cities?

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