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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word from Chapter 6 refers to a historical clerk, scribe, or notary?
(a) Articulator.
(b) Notary.
(c) Scrivener.
(d) Jurisprudence.

2. What sorority are the girls members of that are described attending the racially offensive cartoon night in Chapter 22?
(a) Phi Delta Beta.
(b) Nu Iota Gamma.
(c) Alpha Omega.
(d) Delta Gamma.

3. How did Pete the Pup die?
(a) He choked on a bottle lid.
(b) He swallowed an alarm clock.
(c) Brain aneuryism.
(d) Cancer.

4. In Chapter 9, the narrator says that "history isn't the paper it's printed on" (144). What does he assert history is instead?
(a) A people.
(b) Time's passing.
(c) Memory.
(d) A dream.

5. What city is described as "the City That Never Stops Bleeding" by the narrator in "City Lites, An Interlude"?
(a) Berlin.
(b) Juarez.
(c) Paris.
(d) Florence.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Foy Cheshire's definition of WME in Chapter 19?

2. The narrator describes his "usual postcoital position" as "rolled up into a ball like" what, in Chapter 17 (202)?

3. For how long did Hominy claim he had been working as a slave for the narrator when talking to the police in Chapter 23?

4. What word from Chapter 18 refers to a tomblike monument to someone buried elsewhere?

5. What movie does the narrator describe starring Charlie Chaplin and Paulette Goddard in Chapter 14?

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