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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 say is the "beauty of minstrelsy" in Chapter 15 (188)?
(a) Its irony.
(b) Its satire.
(c) Its timelessness.
(d) Its overt racism.

2. What word used in the Prologue is an adjective describing a person who is optimistic regardless of the circumstances?
(a) Articulate.
(b) Epistolarian.
(c) Monolithic.
(d) Panglossian.

3. How does the narrator describe the hairstyles of the Justices when they enter the courtroom in the Prologue (19)?
(a) "Reagan-era hairstyles."
(b) "Nixon-era hairstyles."
(c) "Powdered-wig hairstyles."
(d) "Eisenhower-era hairstyles."

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

5. How old was Wheezer when he died?
(a) 41.
(b) 19.
(c) 32.
(d) 16.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is described as the sister city to Algiers in "City Lites, An Interlude"?

2. The narrator asserts in Chapter 7 that Foy Cheshire's ownership of the most racist Little Rascal films is what?

3. What is the case number for "Me v. the United States of America" (20)?

4. For whom did Chubsy-Ubsy have an unrequited love?

5. What word from Chapter 6 refers to a historical clerk, scribe, or notary?

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