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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 9, the narrator says that "history isn't the paper it's printed on" (144). What does he assert history is instead?
(a) Memory.
(b) A people.
(c) Time's passing.
(d) A dream.

2. Who is the only white teacher at the middle school where the narrator demonstrated castrating a calf?
(a) Miss Smart.
(b) Mr. Edmunds.
(c) Mr. Jenkins.
(d) Mr. Wililams.

3. What does the narrator say has more "motion of the ocean" than him in Chapter 17 (201)?
(a) "A cotton-picking slave."
(b) "A fat man in a flat boat."
(c) "A plate of day-old sashimi."
(d) "A pier overlooking the sea."

4. What single phrase comprises Chapter 2?
(a) "Up or down?"
(b) "Where we going?"
(c) "Westside, nigger! What?"
(d) "White boy, stop."

5. The narrator describes himself in Chapter 18 as the Afrikaner parliamentarian in Johannesburg in what year?
(a) 1948.
(b) 1959.
(c) 1929.
(d) 1935.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator lay out the three basic laws of in the opening of Chapter 3?

2. How old was Wheezer when he died?

3. At what time does the narrator say that Hominy would show up for work each day in Chapter 6?

4. What does the narrator say "ain't easy" just like "pimpin' ain't easy" in the opening of Chapter 6 (80)?

5. How old was the narrator when he wrote his first scientific paper called "Passenger Seating Tendencies by Race and Gender"?

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