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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 is the area of Harlem paired with by City Match?
(a) Juarez.
(b) Florence.
(c) Paris.
(d) Berlin.
2. What is described as the sister city to Algiers in "City Lites, An Interlude"?
(a) Berlin.
(b) Juarez.
(c) Paris.
(d) Florence.
3. What word in Chapter 19 refers to a thick stick of blackthorn or oak used in Ireland as a weapon?
(a) Shillelagh.
(b) Capercallie.
(c) Claymore.
(d) Cairn.
4. Where is the long-lost city of Dollersheim located?
(a) France.
(b) Austria.
(c) Italy.
(d) Russia.
5. The narrator describes his "usual postcoital position" as "rolled up into a ball like" what, in Chapter 17 (202)?
(a) "A snake ready to strike."
(b) "A frightened teenage armadillo."
(c) "A mouse in a church kitchen."
(d) "A catatonic mole unearthed."
Short Answer Questions
1. About how many people were at the meeting of the Dum Dum Donut Intellectuals that the narrator describes in Chapter 19?
2. What is the name of Marpessa's younger brother?
3. Who was the founder of Portland, Oregon?
4. What character wrote the book Mick, Please: The Black Irish Journey from Ghetto to Gaelic?
5. Where is Charisma Molina an assistant principal?
Short Essay Questions
1. Who is Charisma Molina and what is her profession?
2. How does the narrator respond to the autographed book he receives in Chapter 19? What is the book?
3. Where does the narrator describe his father taking him in order to show him that racism still exists?
4. What is burned at the ending of Career Day at Chaff Middle School? Why?
5. How does the narrator define sister cities in "City Lites: An Interlude"?
6. How did the narrator's father attempt to demonstrate racism to him backfire in Chapter 13?
7. What does the narrator demonstrate on Career Day at the Chaff Middle School?
8. What emotional disorder does the narrator tell the court he likely has?
9. How is the narrator's satsuma tree employed as a symbol in the novel?
10. What is "Whitey Week" and how is it defined in Chapter 20?
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