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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the narrator say he was struggling with growing potatoes in Chapter 18?
(a) The climate is too warm.
(b) The climate is too wet.
(c) The climate is too dry.
(d) The climate is too cold.

2. What does the narrator lay out the three basic laws of in the opening of Chapter 3?
(a) Ghetto physics.
(b) Court appearances.
(c) Racial interactions.
(d) Basketball.

3. For how long did the faked contract read that Hominy had been the narrator's slave when he was emancipated?
(a) Six years.
(b) Three weeks.
(c) Two weeks.
(d) Six months.

4. Who wrote All Quiet on the Western Front?
(a) Jean Genet.
(b) Erich Maria Remarque.
(c) Samuel Beckett.
(d) Jean Piaget.

5. What is Hominy's last name?
(a) Jenkins.
(b) Me.
(c) Williams.
(d) Smith.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does "RTD" stand for (118)?

2. What does the narrator say Hominy's work mostly consisted of in Chapter 6 (82)?

3. The narrator describes himself in Chapter 18 as the Afrikaner parliamentarian in Johannesburg in what year?

4. What does the narrator claim is the "black workingman's motto" in the Prologue (20)?

5. The narrator states in the Prologue, "Be it ancient Rome or modern-day America, you're either citizen or" what (5)?

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