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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who are the three powerful and famous African-Americans that appeared at the meeting of the Dum Dum Donut Intellectuals in Chapter 19?
(a) Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, and Malcolm X.
(b) Oprah Winfrey, Michael Jordan, and Colin Powell.
(c) Bill Cosby, Condoleeza Rice, and Colin Powell.
(d) Booker T. Washington, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

4. 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.

5. Which of the three signs presented by the narrator was the one that was most chosen by the small-business people of Dickens in Chapter 20 (225)?
(a) "Latino, Asian, and Black Only."
(b) "Black, Asian, and Latino Only."
(c) "Blacks Only."
(d) "No Whites Allowed."

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Marpessa throw at Foy Cheshire, according to the narrator in Chapter 17?

3. What is King Cuz's real name?

4. To whom did the narrator give his last two satsuma mandarins in Chapter 15?

5. What does the narrator say has more "motion of the ocean" than him in Chapter 17 (201)?

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