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

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

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

4. 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."

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the founder of Portland, Oregon?

2. 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?

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

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

5. What word in Chapter 19 refers to a thick stick of blackthorn or oak used in Ireland as a weapon?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Who is Jon McJones and where does the narrator encounter him?

4. What is burned at the ending of Career Day at Chaff Middle School? Why?

5. Why do the neighborhood children gather in the narrator's yard in Chapter 15?

6. What are the three lost cities that the narrator dictates to be sister cities to Dickens?

7. How does Foy Cheshire respond to the signs announcing the establishment of Wheaton Academy?

8. How does the narrator define sister cities in "City Lites: An Interlude"?

9. How did the narrator's father attempt to demonstrate racism to him backfire in Chapter 13?

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

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