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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 described as the sister city to Algiers in "City Lites, An Interlude"?
(a) Juarez.
(b) Paris.
(c) Florence.
(d) Berlin.

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

3. Who is the student that volunteered to help the narrator castrate a calf on Career Day?
(a) Sheila Clark.
(b) Curtis Baxter.
(c) Jean Piaget.
(d) Susan Silverman.

4. Who does the narrator refer to as the "Mother of the Modern-Day Civil Rights Movement" in Chapter 10 (127)?
(a) Harriet Tubman.
(b) Rosa Parks.
(c) Marie Wilson.
(d) Anna Waters.

5. What does the narrator say Hominy's work mostly consisted of in Chapter 6 (82)?
(a) "Washing my car."
(b) "Picking cotton."
(c) "Harvesting corn and potatoes."
(d) "Watching me work."

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the latest of Foy Cheshire's novel adaptations that he passed around at the Dum Dum Donut Intellectuals meeting in Chapter 19?

2. The narrator states in Chapter 7 that "One of the many sad ironies of African-American life is that every banal dysfunctional social gathering is called" what (93-94)?

3. For whom did Chubsy-Ubsy have an unrequited love?

4. What caused Buckwheat's death?

5. What is described as the sister city to Tel Aviv in "City Lites, An Interlude"?

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