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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 did Foy Cheshire rename The Iceman Cometh?
(a) The Gangsta Cometh.
(b) The White-Man Cometh.
(c) The Ice-tea Cometh.
(d) The Dopeman Cometh.

2. How many students were in the narrator's graduating class in high school?
(a) Twenty.
(b) Twenty-two.
(c) One.
(d) Sixteen.

3. Whose theory of cognitive development is cited in Chapter 1?
(a) James White.
(b) Robert Forster.
(c) Jean Piaget.
(d) Jean Genet.

4. Where does the narrator say his car is parked in the Prologue?
(a) On Roosevelt Avenue.
(b) On Rockefeller Street.
(c) On the Avenue of America.
(d) On Constitution Avenue.

5. When did the West African nation of Ghana declare independence?
(a) 1965.
(b) 1949.
(c) 1935.
(d) 1957.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many times does the narrator say he has experienced direct discrimination based on race in Chapter 13?

2. What single phrase comprises Chapter 2?

3. What does "RTD" stand for (118)?

4. To whom did the narrator give his last two satsuma mandarins in Chapter 15?

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

(see the answer key)

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