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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was the town where the narrator grew up founded?
(a) 1855.
(b) 1799.
(c) 1868.
(d) 1895.

2. How does the narrator describe the closing of the letter that summoned him to the Supreme Court in the Prologue?
(a) Sincerely yours, The Congress of the United States of America.
(b) Sincerely yours, The Senate of the United States of America.
(c) Sincerely yours, The People of the United States of America.
(d) Sincerely yours, The President of the United States of America.

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

4. 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) Malcolm X.
(b) Rosa Parks.
(c) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(d) Booker T. Washington.

5. What did Foy Cheshire retitle The Great Gatsby as?
(a) The Great Blacksby.
(b) The Great Contraption.
(c) The Great Gary.
(d) The Great Emancipation.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. For what musician does the narrator claim to have a strange affinity in Chapter 1?

3. Who is the student that volunteered to help the narrator castrate a calf on Career Day?

4. What did Foy Cheshire rename The Iceman Cometh?

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

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