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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 Roxy.
(b) The Sagan.
(c) The Meralta.
(d) The Carlton.

2. What does the narrator say is the "beauty of minstrelsy" in Chapter 15 (188)?
(a) Its timelessness.
(b) Its overt racism.
(c) Its satire.
(d) Its irony.

3. In the narrator's fantasy in Chapter 17, who does he describe telling Marpessa, "When you see Bonbon, the Cosmic Sellout and your one true love, cast down your panties where you are" (209)?
(a) Rosa Parks.
(b) Booker T. Washington.
(c) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(d) Malcolm X.

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

5. Why did the narrator claim poor people were the best drivers?
(a) Because they are hiding from the law.
(b) Because they drive stolen cars.
(c) Because they cannot afford insurance.
(d) Because they are talking on phones.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word from Chapter 15 means cheerful and full of energy?

2. What verb in Chapter 19 means to dispute the truth, validity, or honesty of a statement or thing?

3. What does the narrator say that L.A. is about in Chapter 9?

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

5. What does the narrator say brought all the children of the neighborhood to his yard in Chapter 15?

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