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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "City Lites: An Interlude" – Chapter 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Hominy's last name?
(a) Jenkins.
(b) Smith.
(c) Williams.
(d) Me.

2. Who is the only white teacher at the middle school where the narrator demonstrated castrating a calf?
(a) Miss Smart.
(b) Mr. Edmunds.
(c) Mr. Jenkins.
(d) Mr. Wililams.

3. How old was Alfalfa when he was shot in the face?
(a) 23.
(b) 59.
(c) 42.
(d) 35.

4. Whom does the narrator describe in Chapter 1 as "the bitch next door and my only true love" during his childhood?
(a) Marpessa Delissa Dawson.
(b) Emily Williams.
(c) Angela Dean Patterson.
(d) Charisma Molina.

5. How does the narrator describe the hairstyles of the Justices when they enter the courtroom in the Prologue (19)?
(a) "Eisenhower-era hairstyles."
(b) "Reagan-era hairstyles."
(c) "Powdered-wig hairstyles."
(d) "Nixon-era hairstyles."

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Hominy claim was "the original Little Rascal" (86)?

2. What did Foy Cheshire reassign as the name of Uncle Tom's Cabin?

3. What is the name of the ghetto community on the southern outskirts of Los Angeles where the narrator grew up?

4. What does the narrator say brought all the children of the neighborhood to his yard in Chapter 15?

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

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