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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 16 – 20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the only movie theater in Dickens?
(a) The Carlton.
(b) The Meralta.
(c) The Sagan.
(d) The Roxy.

2. What magazine was King Cuz flipping through when the narrator sat next to him at the meeting of the Dum Dum Donut Intellectuals in Chapter 19?
(a) Lowrider magazine.
(b) New Yorker magazine.
(c) People magazine.
(d) Life magazine.

3. In Chapter 9, the narrator says that "history isn't the paper it's printed on" (144). What does he assert history is instead?
(a) A dream.
(b) A people.
(c) Time's passing.
(d) Memory.

4. Of "Little Scotty Beckett," the narrator says, "Scotty was a big-eyed Rascal who used to run with" whom, in Chapter 6 (84)?
(a) Hominy.
(b) Spanky.
(c) Buckwheat.
(d) Fat Albet.

5. What does the narrator say the best apples taste like in Chapter 18?
(a) Oranges.
(b) Candy.
(c) Peaches.
(d) Watermelons.

Short Answer Questions

1. What college has been breeding the world's best apples since the late 1890s, according to the narrator in Chapter 18?

2. What is the area of Harlem paired with by City Match?

3. For how long did the faked contract read that Hominy had been the narrator's slave when he was emancipated?

4. 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?

5. Who does the narrator refer to as the "Mother of the Modern-Day Civil Rights Movement" in Chapter 10 (127)?

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