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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. In which of the following does the narrator report his mother saw him argue a case?
(a) State supreme court.
(b) Federal circuit court.
(c) Suburban law center.
(d) Municipal court.

2. As which of the following do the narrator and Nigel relabel Penny’s birthday?
(a) Penelopement.
(b) The Copper Age.
(c) One Cent Day.
(d) Hundredth’s Day.

3. Which of the following does the narrator note had been the previous function of the Reinhardt Uplift Center?
(a) Shipping warehouse.
(b) Shopping mall.
(c) Paint factory.
(d) Artist’s colony.

4. Which of the following is the ratio of Black city residents the narrator notes have been imprisoned in Liberia?
(a) 1 in 10.
(b) 1 in 2.
(c) 8 in 11.
(d) 8 in 10.

5. To which of the following does the narrator compare Nigel?
(a) A hose.
(b) A spigot.
(c) A hydrant.
(d) A faucet.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does the statue of Jean-Jacques LePieu hold?

2. To which of the following does the narrator compare Nigel?

3. Which of the following do the narrator and Nigel encounter at the grocery store?

4. At which of the following does the narrator purchase a cake for Penny?

5. Which of the following does the narrator note his grandfather wore?

Short Essay Questions

1. What significance accrues to Armbruster signing a company that he and Octavia had worked on together?

2. How does the narrator report imagining Dr. Nzinga?

3. What does the narrator identify as “The problem with going to a grocery store when you’re the noncooking partner” (215)?

4. What does the narrator expect to hear from his father when he visits him in prison?

5. What message does Jo Jo leave for the narrator when he leaves?

6. What reasons are given for disbelief in ADZE’s complicity in the mall attack?

7. What reason does the narrator give for beginning to learn American Sign Language?

8. How does the narrator describe his preferred workspace in the wake of Penny’s death?

9. What image does the narrator report BEG uses to conceive of the United States?

10. What advice does the narrator report receiving from his grandfather?

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