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

2. To what Shakespearean play does the narrator compare the Little Rascals in Chapter 6?
(a) Macbeth.
(b) Hamlet.
(c) All's Well that Ends Well.
(d) The Taming of the Shrew.

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

4. How is "ABD" defined by the narrator's father in Chapter 1 (36-37)?
(a) "All Bewarned and Die."
(b) "American Board of Dentists."
(c) "All But Dead."
(d) "All But Defeated."

5. Where did the narrator's father take him in order to expose him to racism in Chapter 13?
(a) Alabama.
(b) Mississippi.
(c) Arkansas.
(d) Louisiana.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who killed the narrator's father?

2. Who wrote All Quiet on the Western Front?

3. Why did the narrator claim poor people were the best drivers?

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

5. What is describe as "the hillbilly neighborhood about ten miles north of Dickens" in Chapter 14 (180)?

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