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

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

3. Whom does the narrator describe in Chapter 1 as "the bitch next door and my only true love" during his childhood?
(a) Angela Dean Patterson.
(b) Marpessa Delissa Dawson.
(c) Emily Williams.
(d) Charisma Molina.

4. The narrator states in the Prologue, "I understand now that the only time black people don't feel guilty is when" what (18)?
(a) "We've been falsely accused of a crime."
(b) "We've been oppressed."
(c) "We have paid our debts to society."
(d) "We've actually done something wrong."

5. What word from Chapter 15 means cheerful and full of energy?
(a) Nepotistic.
(b) Perspicacity.
(c) Monolithic.
(d) Ebullient.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what Shakespearean play does the narrator compare the Little Rascals in Chapter 6?

2. For what musician does the narrator claim to have a strange affinity in Chapter 1?

3. What word used in the Prologue is an adjective describing a person who is optimistic regardless of the circumstances?

4. In what key does the narrator say his father spoke in Chapter 1?

5. By what name does the narrator say he calls his marijuana in Chapter 11?

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