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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 directed the film The Ten Commandments?
(a) Cecil B. DeMille.
(b) Rob Reiner.
(c) Fellini.
(d) Susan Silverman.

2. Where does the narrator say his car is parked in the Prologue?
(a) On the Avenue of America.
(b) On Constitution Avenue.
(c) On Roosevelt Avenue.
(d) On Rockefeller Street.

3. How did Pete the Pup die?
(a) Brain aneuryism.
(b) Cancer.
(c) He choked on a bottle lid.
(d) He swallowed an alarm clock.

4. 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) Booker T. Washington, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King, Jr.
(c) Bill Cosby, Condoleeza Rice, and Colin Powell.
(d) Oprah Winfrey, Michael Jordan, and Colin Powell.

5. What is described as the sister city to Algiers in "City Lites, An Interlude"?
(a) Berlin.
(b) Juarez.
(c) Florence.
(d) Paris.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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)?

2. How does the narrator describe the current state of the Union in the Prologue?

3. How many students were in the narrator's graduating class in high school?

4. At what time does the narrator say he was summoned to appear in court for his hearing in the Prologue?

5. Whose murder in 1964 launched interest and experiments in the bystander effect?

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