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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say Hominy's work mostly consisted of in Chapter 6 (82)?

2. What was the hero of the one comic book that the narrator ever owned?

3. How many students were in the narrator's graduating class in high school?

4. When did the West African nation of Ghana declare independence?

5. What word used in the Prologue is an adjective describing a person who is optimistic regardless of the circumstances?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the narrator remark about mottos in the Prologue?

2. What happened on the occasions where the narrator attempted to emancipate Hominy?

3. What are the three basic laws of ghetto physics that the narrator describes in Chapter 3?

4. How does the narrator describe Hominy's work on the farm in Chapter 6?

5. How do the members of the Dum Dum Donut Intellectuals respond to the narrator's proposal to restore the City of Dickens?

6. Who is Hampton Fiske and how is he described?

7. What is the definition of satire and how does satire apply to The Sellout?

8. What happened when the narrator's father attempted an experiment on bystander syndrome when the narrator was a child?

9. How does the narrator describe Hominy's birthday celebration?

10. Why does Foy Cheshire reimagine and adapt classic novels like Huckleberry Finn?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the theme of racism in The Sellout. How does the author develop this theme through setting and characters? How is the theme related to symbolism and imagery in the novel? What statements do you think the author is making about racism? Why?

Essay Topic 2

Analyze and discuss the character of F. K. Me in The Sellout. What is this character's profession? How is his relationship with his son depicted? Do you think this character is portrayed as a protagonist or antagonist? Why?

Essay Topic 3

Describe the death of the narrator's father and its impact on the narrator. How did the narrator's father die? Where did he die? How did the narrator discover him? How did he react?

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