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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "City Lites: An Interlude" – Chapter 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Pete the Pup die?
(a) He swallowed an alarm clock.
(b) Cancer.
(c) Brain aneuryism.
(d) He choked on a bottle lid.

2. When did Charisma Molina's family move to Los Angeles?
(a) 1954.
(b) 1949.
(c) 1965.
(d) 1935.

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

4. Whose murder in 1964 launched interest and experiments in the bystander effect?
(a) Kitty Genovese's.
(b) Patricia Smith's.
(c) Paul Wilkinson's.
(d) Sarah Greenway's.

5. The narrator describes himself in the Prologue as a "not-so-proud descendant of" the Mees located where (20)?
(a) Arkansas.
(b) Mississippi.
(c) Kentucky.
(d) Georgia.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Darla Hood die from in reality, according to the narrator in Chapter 6?

2. In Chapter 9, the narrator says that "history isn't the paper it's printed on" (144). What does he assert history is instead?

3. What caused Buckwheat's death?

4. How does the narrator describe the closing of the letter that summoned him to the Supreme Court in the Prologue?

5. What is the name of the ghetto community on the southern outskirts of Los Angeles where the narrator grew up?

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