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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What word from Chapter 18 refers to a tomblike monument to someone buried elsewhere?
(a) Epitaph.
(b) Scrivener.
(c) Cenotaph.
(d) Monacle.

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

4. Who is the City Match Consultant that called the narrator about his application with Dickens?
(a) Jean Piaget.
(b) Susan Silverman.
(c) Curtis Baxter.
(d) Charisma Molina.

5. What word from the novel refers to something formed of a single large block of stone?
(a) Monolithic.
(b) Archaic.
(c) Magnetic.
(d) Epistolarian.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word used in the Prologue is an adjective describing a person who is optimistic regardless of the circumstances?

2. What television show does Hampton Fiske say "Stage I Negroes" watch reruns of in Chapter 24 (275)?

3. How did Pete the Pup die?

4. The narrator describes himself in the Prologue as a "not-so-proud descendant of" the Mees located where (20)?

5. Of "Little Scotty Beckett," the narrator says, "Scotty was a big-eyed Rascal who used to run with" whom, in Chapter 6 (84)?

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