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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 21 – Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was the movie set for The Ten Commandments buried under the Nipomo Dunes?
(a) 1945.
(b) 1915.
(c) 1932.
(d) 1923.

2. What month was it that the narrator was trying to grow potatoes in Chapter 18?
(a) April.
(b) March.
(c) June.
(d) November.

3. What name does the narrator use to describe "Stage II blackness" in Chapter 24 (276)?
(a) "Race Transcendentalism."
(b) "Affluent Blackness."
(c) "Unmitigated Blackness."
(d) "Capital B Black."

4. How does the narrator translate "Cogito, ergo Boogieum" to English in Chapter 14 (183)?
(a) "I think, therefore I jam."
(b) "I think, therere I dance."
(c) "I think, therefore I am."
(d) "I think, therefore I run."

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator lay out the three basic laws of in the opening of Chapter 3?

2. What word does the narrator define in Chapter 22 as "Hollywood slang for having a dynamic camera appearance" (238)?

3. In what year were the Our Gang and Little Rascals films shot that were blacked out on the ledgers presented by Topsy in Chapter 22?

4. How large does the narrator say Los Angeles County is?

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

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