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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 the student that volunteered to help the narrator castrate a calf on Career Day?
(a) Jean Piaget.
(b) Susan Silverman.
(c) Curtis Baxter.
(d) Sheila Clark.

2. How many times does the narrator say he has experienced direct discrimination based on race in Chapter 13?
(a) Twice.
(b) Three times.
(c) Once.
(d) Five times.

3. The narrator describes himself in Chapter 18 as the Afrikaner parliamentarian in Johannesburg in what year?
(a) 1929.
(b) 1959.
(c) 1935.
(d) 1948.

4. The narrator states in the Prologue, "This may be hard to believe, coming from a black man, but I've never" what (3)?
(a) "Stolen anything."
(b) "Gone fishing."
(c) "Been in jail."
(d) "Killed anyone."

5. What does the narrator claim to listen to recordings of when he has trouble sleeping in Chapter 1?
(a) Slot machines playing.
(b) Ocean waves.
(c) Sheep baa-ing.
(d) The Watergate tapes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word from Chapter 18 refers to a tomblike monument to someone buried elsewhere?

2. What college has been breeding the world's best apples since the late 1890s, according to the narrator in Chapter 18?

3. Who did Hominy claim was "the original Little Rascal" (86)?

4. Why did the narrator's father flee to Canada?

5. What is described in Chapter 23 as "Foy Cheshire's latest reimagined multicultural text" (253)?

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