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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 month was it that the narrator was trying to grow potatoes in Chapter 18?
2. Who is the student that volunteered to help the narrator castrate a calf on Career Day?
3. Who is the only white teacher at the middle school where the narrator demonstrated castrating a calf?
4. What verb in Chapter 19 means to dispute the truth, validity, or honesty of a statement or thing?
5. About how many people were at the meeting of the Dum Dum Donut Intellectuals that the narrator describes in Chapter 19?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why do the neighborhood children gather in the narrator's yard in Chapter 15?
2. Why have the three cities that Dickens matched with refused to be sister cities?
3. What is Wheaton Academy and what role does it play in the plot of The Sellout?
4. How is the narrator's satsuma tree employed as a symbol in the novel?
5. Whom did Marpessa marry after leaving the narrator? How has her life changed?
6. How does the narrator define sister cities in "City Lites: An Interlude"?
7. How did the narrator's father attempt to demonstrate racism to him backfire in Chapter 13?
8. What is burned at the ending of Career Day at Chaff Middle School? Why?
9. What does the apple tree symbolize in Chapter 18?
10. How does Foy Cheshire respond to the signs announcing the establishment of Wheaton Academy?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe and analyze the character of Marpessa Dawson. How does Marpessa know the narrator? How would you describe their relationship? What is Marpessa's profession?
Essay Topic 2
What effects do the segregation signs on Marpessa's bus have? How does the narrator extend segregation beyond the bus? What indicators does the narrator erect to do so?
Essay Topic 3
Describe the events on Career Day at the Chaff Middle School. What does Marpessa demonstrate for the students? What does the narrator's demonstration consist of? How does the day conclude?
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