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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 dry.
(b) The climate is too warm.
(c) The climate is too cold.
(d) The climate is too wet.

2. The narrator asserts in Chapter 17 that "In the history of American black people, there have been only two with the complete inability to tell a joke" (205). Who, aside from the narrator's father is unable to tell a joke?
(a) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(b) Malcolm X.
(c) Bill Cosby.
(d) Napoleon Bonaparte.

3. What is the name of the fake school that the narrator has "erected" in Dickens?
(a) The Wilson Academy.
(b) The Wheaton Academy.
(c) The Carlton Academy.
(d) The Roosevelt Academy.

4. What word in Chapter 19 refers to a thick stick of blackthorn or oak used in Ireland as a weapon?
(a) Shillelagh.
(b) Capercallie.
(c) Claymore.
(d) Cairn.

5. What does the narrator say brought all the children of the neighborhood to his yard in Chapter 15?
(a) The police.
(b) Rumors of money.
(c) The newspaper headline.
(d) The smell.

Short Answer 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?

2. With what Kafka novel does the narrator describe Mapessa covering her face in Chapter 9?

3. How does the narrator describe the closing of the letter that summoned him to the Supreme Court in the Prologue?

4. What word from Chapter 7 refers to the supernatural transformation of a person into a wolf?

5. What date did the narrator use on his emancipation of Hominy in Chapter 6?

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