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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. How old was Wheezer when he died?
(a) 16.
(b) 32.
(c) 41.
(d) 19.
2. What is Hampton Fiske's 800 number?
(a) 1-800-CONSTITUTION.
(b) 1-800-FREEDOM.
(c) 1-800-INNOCENT.
(d) 1-800-GOFREE.
3. What does the narrator say his father was in Chapter 1?
(a) An English professor.
(b) A pediatrician.
(c) A social scientist.
(d) A history professor.
4. What word used in the Prologue is an adjective describing a person who is optimistic regardless of the circumstances?
(a) Panglossian.
(b) Epistolarian.
(c) Articulate.
(d) Monolithic.
5. How does the narrator describe the closing of the letter that summoned him to the Supreme Court in the Prologue?
(a) Sincerely yours, The People of the United States of America.
(b) Sincerely yours, The President of the United States of America.
(c) Sincerely yours, The Senate of the United States of America.
(d) Sincerely yours, The Congress of the United States of America.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is Hominy's last name?
2. For whom did Chubsy-Ubsy have an unrequited love?
3. For how long did the faked contract read that Hominy had been the narrator's slave when he was emancipated?
4. The narrator describes the black Justice as looking at him with "that crazy, red-eyed penetrating look that back home we call" what (22)?
5. Whom does the narrator describe in Chapter 1 as "the bitch next door and my only true love" during his childhood?
Short Essay Questions
1. What are the three basic laws of ghetto physics that the narrator describes in Chapter 3?
2. Who is Hampton Fiske and how is he described?
3. How do the members of the Dum Dum Donut Intellectuals respond to the narrator's proposal to restore the City of Dickens?
4. What does the narrator remark about mottos in the Prologue?
5. What happened on the occasions where the narrator attempted to emancipate Hominy?
6. Why does the black woman slap the narrator in the Prologue?
7. How does the narrator describe Hominy's work on the farm in Chapter 6?
8. How did the narrator's father die?
9. Why does the narrator construct a highway sign with the name Dickens on it?
10. How is Hominy Jenkins described by the narrator?
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