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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 does the narrator claim to listen to recordings of when he has trouble sleeping in Chapter 1?
(a) The Watergate tapes.
(b) Sheep baa-ing.
(c) Ocean waves.
(d) Slot machines playing.

2. What does the narrator say "ain't easy" just like "pimpin' ain't easy" in the opening of Chapter 6 (80)?
(a) "Calling home."
(b) "Runnin' a gang."
(c) "Burying people."
(d) "Slaveholdin'."

3. The narrator asserts in Chapter 7 that Foy Cheshire's ownership of the most racist Little Rascal films is what?
(a) A bald-faced lie.
(b) Urban legend.
(c) A conspiracy.
(d) An honest truth.

4. The narrator states in Chapter 7 that "One of the many sad ironies of African-American life is that every banal dysfunctional social gathering is called" what (93-94)?
(a) "A pot-luck."
(b) "A 'function'."
(c) "A get-together."
(d) "A gathering."

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say is the "beauty of minstrelsy" in Chapter 15 (188)?

2. Who directed the film The Ten Commandments?

3. How old was the narrator when he wrote his first scientific paper called "Passenger Seating Tendencies by Race and Gender"?

4. How does the narrator describe the hairstyles of the Justices when they enter the courtroom in the Prologue (19)?

5. What was the hero of the one comic book that the narrator ever owned?

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