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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator describe the hairstyles of the Justices when they enter the courtroom in the Prologue (19)?
(a) "Powdered-wig hairstyles."
(b) "Nixon-era hairstyles."
(c) "Eisenhower-era hairstyles."
(d) "Reagan-era hairstyles."

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

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

4. With what Kafka novel does the narrator describe Mapessa covering her face in Chapter 9?
(a) The Stranger.
(b) Waiting for Godot.
(c) The Trial.
(d) To Have and Have Not.

5. What diagnosis did Marpessa determine for the narrator when he was 18?
(a) Depressive Disorder.
(b) Bipolar Disorder.
(c) Attachment Disorder.
(d) Social Anxiety Disorder.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the narrator say he was struggling with growing potatoes in Chapter 18?

2. Who was the founder of Portland, Oregon?

3. The narrator states in Chapter 7 that "One of the many sad ironies of African-American life is that every banal dysfunctional social gathering is called" what (93-94)?

4. What day was it that the narrator set out to go to Dum Dum's in the end of Chapter 18?

5. At what time each day on Monday through Friday would Hominy appear by the narrator's truck to segregate Dickens in Chapter 20?

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