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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 21 – Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is described in Chapter 24 as a "courtroom artist extraordinaire and film buff" (269)?
(a) Fred Manne.
(b) Curtis Baxter.
(c) Jean Piaget.
(d) Carl Williams.

2. What does the narrator claim is the "calling card of the Chickasaw nation" (10)?
(a) "Unconquered and Unconquerable."
(b) "Above and Beyond."
(c) "The Water Whisperers."
(d) "In Tune with Earth and Skies."

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

4. How is "ABD" defined by the narrator's father in Chapter 1 (36-37)?
(a) "All Bewarned and Die."
(b) "All But Dead."
(c) "All But Defeated."
(d) "American Board of Dentists."

5. What word in Chapter 18 is a chiefly South African word that is an insulting and contemptuous term for a black African?
(a) Kink.
(b) Jag.
(c) Kaffir.
(d) Lopo.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the Northridge quake occur that collapsed the roof of the school auditorium where the narrator demonstrated castrating a calf?

2. What is described as the sister city to Algiers in "City Lites, An Interlude"?

3. What word from Chapter 23 mean the ability to produce a desired or intended result?

4. What city is described as "the City That Never Stops Bleeding" by the narrator in "City Lites, An Interlude"?

5. Who killed the narrator's father?

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