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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 much older is Nestor Lopez than the narrator?
(a) Ten years older.
(b) Four years older.
(c) Two years older.
(d) Three years older.

2. What word from Chapter 18 refers to a tomblike monument to someone buried elsewhere?
(a) Monacle.
(b) Epitaph.
(c) Scrivener.
(d) Cenotaph.

3. What is Foy Cheshire's definition of WME in Chapter 19?
(a) Weapon of Mass Enlightenment.
(b) Weapon of Mass Emasculation.
(c) Weapon of Mass Education.
(d) Weapon of Mass Endowment.

4. To whom did the narrator give his last two satsuma mandarins in Chapter 15?
(a) Marpessa.
(b) Sheila Clark.
(c) King Cuz.
(d) Charisma.

5. Because of Marpessa's schedule and her kids, she and the narrator could only date on what nights of the week when they rekindled their flame in Chapter 17?
(a) Thursdays and Fridays.
(b) Saturdays and Sundays.
(c) Mondays and Tuesdays.
(d) Tuesdays and Wednesdays.

Short Answer Questions

1. What diagnosis did Marpessa determine for the narrator when he was 18?

2. Who are the three powerful and famous African-Americans that appeared at the meeting of the Dum Dum Donut Intellectuals in Chapter 19?

3. What is the name of the fake school that the narrator has "erected" in Dickens?

4. The narrator asserts in Chapter 17 that "In the history of American black people, there have been only two with the complete inability to tell a joke" (205). Who, aside from the narrator's father is unable to tell a joke?

5. Where is the long-lost city of Dollersheim located?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the narrator define sister cities in "City Lites: An Interlude"?

2. What is "Whitey Week" and how is it defined in Chapter 20?

3. What does Marpessa demonstrate on Career Day at the Chaff Middle School?

4. What is Wheaton Academy and what role does it play in the plot of The Sellout?

5. Why do the neighborhood children gather in the narrator's yard in Chapter 15?

6. Who is Jon McJones and where does the narrator encounter him?

7. What does the apple tree symbolize in Chapter 18?

8. Why does the narrator slip out of the meeting in Chapter 19?

9. How did the narrator's father attempt to demonstrate racism to him backfire in Chapter 13?

10. Who is Charisma Molina and what is her profession?

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