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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 word from the Prologue refers to the theory or philosophy of law?
(a) Logic.
(b) Egalitarianism.
(c) Jurisprudence.
(d) Opulence.

2. What does the narrator claim is the "calling card of the Chickasaw nation" (10)?
(a) "In Tune with Earth and Skies."
(b) "The Water Whisperers."
(c) "Above and Beyond."
(d) "Unconquered and Unconquerable."

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

4. What does the narrator claim is the "black workingman's motto" in the Prologue (20)?
(a) "Work buys freedom."
(b) "Harder and faster."
(c) "The cream rises to the top."
(d) "Out of sight, out of mind."

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What word from the novel refers to something formed of a single large block of stone?

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

3. What is the name of the ghetto community on the southern outskirts of Los Angeles where the narrator grew up?

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

5. What does the narrator claim to listen to recordings of when he has trouble sleeping in Chapter 1?

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