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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. 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."

2. How much older is Nestor Lopez than the narrator?
(a) Ten years older.
(b) Four years older.
(c) Three years older.
(d) Two years older.

3. What word from Chapter 15 means cheerful and full of energy?
(a) Perspicacity.
(b) Nepotistic.
(c) Ebullient.
(d) Monolithic.

4. What is the name of Marpessa's younger brother?
(a) Curtis Baxter.
(b) Stevie Dawson.
(c) Erich Maria Remarque.
(d) Carl Williams.

5. How does the narrator describe the hairstyles of the Justices when they enter the courtroom in the Prologue (19)?
(a) "Powdered-wig hairstyles."
(b) "Nixon-era hairstyles."
(c) "Reagan-era hairstyles."
(d) "Eisenhower-era hairstyles."

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the town where the narrator grew up founded?

2. Who is the student that volunteered to help the narrator castrate a calf on Career Day?

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. What is the name of the social psychology bible that the narrator's father took with him to talk down folks in his town?

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

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