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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 the name of Marpessa's younger brother?
(a) Curtis Baxter.
(b) Stevie Dawson.
(c) Erich Maria Remarque.
(d) Carl Williams.

2. How is "ABD" defined by the narrator's father in Chapter 1 (36-37)?
(a) "All But Defeated."
(b) "All But Dead."
(c) "All Bewarned and Die."
(d) "American Board of Dentists."

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

4. For how long did the faked contract read that Hominy had been the narrator's slave when he was emancipated?
(a) Six years.
(b) Six months.
(c) Two weeks.
(d) Three weeks.

5. Where did the narrator's father take him in order to expose him to racism in Chapter 13?
(a) Mississippi.
(b) Arkansas.
(c) Louisiana.
(d) Alabama.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the City Match Consultant that called the narrator about his application with Dickens?

2. Why did the narrator claim poor people were the best drivers?

3. What does the narrator claim is the "black workingman's motto" in the Prologue (20)?

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

5. What word from Chapter 7 refers to the supernatural transformation of a person into a wolf?

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