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

2. How old was Wheezer when he died?
(a) 32.
(b) 19.
(c) 16.
(d) 41.

3. What does the narrator say that he's seen that were "funnier than my father's [comic] routine in Chapter 17 (206)?
(a) "Self-immolations."
(b) "Chicken slaughters."
(c) "Criminal executions."
(d) "Ganster murders."

4. What did Hominy call the opposite of white flight in Chapter 12 (170)?
(a) "Reverse gentrification."
(b) "The Ku Klux influx."
(c) "White magnetism."
(d) "Forced integration."

5. What did Foy Cheshire retitle The Great Gatsby as?
(a) The Great Emancipation.
(b) The Great Gary.
(c) The Great Contraption.
(d) The Great Blacksby.

Short Answer Questions

1. What day was it that the narrator set out to go to Dum Dum's in the end of Chapter 18?

2. What character wrote the book Mick, Please: The Black Irish Journey from Ghetto to Gaelic?

3. How did Pete the Pup die?

4. What word in Chapter 18 is a chiefly South African word that is an insulting and contemptuous term for a black African?

5. What movie does the narrator describe starring Charlie Chaplin and Paulette Goddard in Chapter 14?

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