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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 word from Chapter 18 refers to a tomblike monument to someone buried elsewhere?
(a) Cenotaph.
(b) Monacle.
(c) Scrivener.
(d) Epitaph.

2. What verb in Chapter 19 means to dispute the truth, validity, or honesty of a statement or thing?
(a) Impugn.
(b) Articulate.
(c) Lycanthropy.
(d) Align.

3. The narrator describes the black Justice as looking at him with "that crazy, red-eyed penetrating look that back home we call" what (22)?
(a) "The Crip-side stare."
(b) "The Willowbrook Avenue Stare."
(c) "The royal stare."
(d) "The Roosevelt Avenue Stare."

4. What word from the novel refers to the practice among those with power or influence of favoring relatives or friends, particularly by giving them jobs?
(a) Lycanthropy.
(b) Egalitarianism.
(c) Nepotism.
(d) Jurisprudence.

5. In the narrator's fantasy in Chapter 17, who does he describe telling Marpessa, "When you see Bonbon, the Cosmic Sellout and your one true love, cast down your panties where you are" (209)?
(a) Rosa Parks.
(b) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(c) Booker T. Washington.
(d) Malcolm X.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator claim is the "calling card of the Chickasaw nation" (10)?

2. Where does the narrator say he had to go in order to track down Cipriano "Candy" Marinez after he tried to flee his abusive family on horseback?

3. Of "Little Scotty Beckett," the narrator says, "Scotty was a big-eyed Rascal who used to run with" whom, in Chapter 6 (84)?

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

5. What word in Chapter 19 refers to a thick stick of blackthorn or oak used in Ireland as a weapon?

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