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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. What is referred to by the narrator as "a presigious oceanfront private 'learning fulcrum'" in Chapter 12 (170)?
(a) Intersection Academy.
(b) Riverdale Academy.
(c) Smithson Academy.
(d) Wheaton Academy.

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

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

4. At what time does the narrator say he was summoned to appear in court for his hearing in the Prologue?
(a) 7:00 a.m.
(b) 9:00 a.m.
(c) 10:00 a.m.
(d) 11:00 a.m.

5. When was the town where the narrator grew up founded?
(a) 1855.
(b) 1868.
(c) 1895.
(d) 1799.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the only white teacher at the middle school where the narrator demonstrated castrating a calf?

2. With what Kafka novel does the narrator describe Mapessa covering her face in Chapter 9?

3. What is describe as "the hillbilly neighborhood about ten miles north of Dickens" in Chapter 14 (180)?

4. What word from the Prologue refers to the theory or philosophy of law?

5. What does the narrator claim to listen to recordings of when he has trouble sleeping in Chapter 1?

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