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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator lay out the three basic laws of in the opening of Chapter 3?
(a) Court appearances.
(b) Basketball.
(c) Ghetto physics.
(d) Racial interactions.

2. When did the West African nation of Ghana declare independence?
(a) 1949.
(b) 1965.
(c) 1957.
(d) 1935.

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

4. The narrator describes himself in the Prologue as a "not-so-proud descendant of" the Mees located where (20)?
(a) Georgia.
(b) Kentucky.
(c) Arkansas.
(d) Mississippi.

5. What does the narrator say his father was in Chapter 1?
(a) An English professor.
(b) A social scientist.
(c) A pediatrician.
(d) A history professor.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does the narrator describe in Chapter 1 as "the bitch next door and my only true love" during his childhood?

2. For what college was the narrator's father the interim dean?

3. The narrator states in the Prologue, "I understand now that the only time black people don't feel guilty is when" what (18)?

4. Who killed the narrator's father?

5. In what key does the narrator say his father spoke in Chapter 1?

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