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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. With what Kafka novel does the narrator describe Mapessa covering her face in Chapter 9?
(a) To Have and Have Not.
(b) The Stranger.
(c) The Trial.
(d) Waiting for Godot.

2. 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) A dream.
(d) Memory.

3. One member of the Dum Dum Donut Intellectuals discusses his children being assigned what novel to read in school in Chapter 7?
(a) Huckleberry Finn.
(b) To Have and Have Not.
(c) Anne of Green Gables.
(d) The Sun Also Rises.

4. What did Foy Cheshire reassign as the name of Uncle Tom's Cabin?
(a) Uncle Terry's Cabin.
(b) Uncle Jack's Highway.
(c) Uncle Tom's Cabana.
(d) Uncle Tom's Condo.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What city is described as "the City That Never Stops Bleeding" by the narrator in "City Lites, An Interlude"?

2. When did Charisma Molina's family move to Los Angeles?

3. How old was Wheezer when he died?

4. What does the narrator say his father was in Chapter 1?

5. Where did the narrator's father take him in order to expose him to racism in Chapter 13?

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