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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 16 – 20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the area of Harlem paired with by City Match?
(a) Paris.
(b) Florence.
(c) Berlin.
(d) Juarez.

2. What word used in the Prologue is an adjective describing a person who is optimistic regardless of the circumstances?
(a) Epistolarian.
(b) Monolithic.
(c) Articulate.
(d) Panglossian.

3. What character wrote the book Mick, Please: The Black Irish Journey from Ghetto to Gaelic?
(a) King Cuz.
(b) Foy Cheshire.
(c) Jean Piaget.
(d) Jon McJones.

4. What did Foy Cheshire rename The Iceman Cometh?
(a) The Dopeman Cometh.
(b) The Ice-tea Cometh.
(c) The White-Man Cometh.
(d) The Gangsta Cometh.

5. What does the narrator say "ain't easy" just like "pimpin' ain't easy" in the opening of Chapter 6 (80)?
(a) "Runnin' a gang."
(b) "Calling home."
(c) "Burying people."
(d) "Slaveholdin'."

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Marpessa's younger brother?

2. What is described as the sister city to Algiers in "City Lites, An Interlude"?

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. Whose murder in 1964 launched interest and experiments in the bystander effect?

5. How old was Wheezer when he died?

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