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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did the narrator claim poor people were the best drivers?
(a) Because they are hiding from the law.
(b) Because they drive stolen cars.
(c) Because they cannot afford insurance.
(d) Because they are talking on phones.

2. One member of the Dum Dum Donut Intellectuals discusses his children being assigned what novel to read in school in Chapter 7?
(a) Huckleberry Finn.
(b) To Have and Have Not.
(c) The Sun Also Rises.
(d) Anne of Green Gables.

3. What is the name of the social psychology bible that the narrator's father took with him to talk down folks in his town?
(a) The Planning of Change.
(b) The Faith and the Fury.
(c) The Blue Future of Life.
(d) The Path to Enlightenment.

4. What does "RTD" stand for (118)?
(a) Road Transfer Division.
(b) Railway Transport Department.
(c) Rapid Transit District.
(d) Road Transportation Department.

5. Who is the dominatrix that Hominy frequented at the BDSM club?
(a) Miss Marie.
(b) Miss Sarah.
(c) Miss Anna.
(d) Miss Dorothy.

6. Who killed the narrator's father?
(a) Charisma.
(b) Marpessa.
(c) His brother.
(d) The police.

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

8. What does the narrator say Hominy's work mostly consisted of in Chapter 6 (82)?
(a) "Picking cotton."
(b) "Washing my car."
(c) "Watching me work."
(d) "Harvesting corn and potatoes."

9. Of "Little Scotty Beckett," the narrator says, "Scotty was a big-eyed Rascal who used to run with" whom, in Chapter 6 (84)?
(a) Fat Albet.
(b) Spanky.
(c) Buckwheat.
(d) Hominy.

10. What is Hampton Fiske's 800 number?
(a) 1-800-FREEDOM.
(b) 1-800-GOFREE.
(c) 1-800-INNOCENT.
(d) 1-800-CONSTITUTION.

11. With what Kafka novel does the narrator describe Mapessa covering her face in Chapter 9?
(a) To Have and Have Not.
(b) Waiting for Godot.
(c) The Stranger.
(d) The Trial.

12. The narrator describes the black Justice as looking at him with "that crazy, red-eyed penetrating look that back home we call" what (22)?
(a) "The Roosevelt Avenue Stare."
(b) "The Crip-side stare."
(c) "The royal stare."
(d) "The Willowbrook Avenue Stare."

13. What does the narrator say "ain't easy" just like "pimpin' ain't easy" in the opening of Chapter 6 (80)?
(a) "Slaveholdin'."
(b) "Calling home."
(c) "Burying people."
(d) "Runnin' a gang."

14. How old was Wheezer when he died?
(a) 16.
(b) 32.
(c) 19.
(d) 41.

15. For how long did the faked contract read that Hominy had been the narrator's slave when he was emancipated?
(a) Six years.
(b) Six months.
(c) Two weeks.
(d) Three weeks.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the hero of the one comic book that the narrator ever owned?

2. For whom did Chubsy-Ubsy have an unrequited love?

3. When did the West African nation of Ghana declare independence?

4. What does the narrator describe as Hominy's favorite room at the BDSM club in Chapter 6?

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

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