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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On what date was the narrator summoned to appear at the U. S. Supreme court building in the Prologue?
(a) September 12.
(b) May 1.
(c) June 16.
(d) March 19.

2. Who wrote All Quiet on the Western Front?
(a) Jean Genet.
(b) Erich Maria Remarque.
(c) Samuel Beckett.
(d) Jean Piaget.

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 Faith and the Fury.
(b) The Blue Future of Life.
(c) The Path to Enlightenment.
(d) The Planning of Change.

4. In Chapter 9, the narrator says that "history isn't the paper it's printed on" (144). What does he assert history is instead?
(a) A dream.
(b) Time's passing.
(c) Memory.
(d) A people.

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

6. What does the narrator say his father was in Chapter 1?
(a) A social scientist.
(b) An English professor.
(c) A pediatrician.
(d) A history professor.

7. How old was the narrator when he wrote his first scientific paper called "Passenger Seating Tendencies by Race and Gender"?
(a) Seven.
(b) Twelve.
(c) Nine.
(d) Sixteen.

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

9. 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 royal stare."
(c) "The Crip-side stare."
(d) "The Willowbrook Avenue Stare."

10. What is the name of the BDSM club on the Westside where the narrator contracted to dole out Hominy's punishments for him?
(a) The Black Cat.
(b) The Hot Kitchen.
(c) Sticks and Stones.
(d) The Devil's Den.

11. What word from the Prologue refers to the theory or philosophy of law?
(a) Egalitarianism.
(b) Jurisprudence.
(c) Logic.
(d) Opulence.

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

13. In what key does the narrator say his father spoke in Chapter 1?
(a) B-sharp.
(b) F-flat.
(c) F-sharp.
(d) G-sharp.

14. For what musician does the narrator claim to have a strange affinity in Chapter 1?
(a) Michael Jackson.
(b) Neil Young.
(c) The Beegees.
(d) The Who.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. One member of the Dum Dum Donut Intellectuals discusses his children being assigned what novel to read in school in Chapter 7?

4. What single phrase comprises Chapter 2?

5. What does the narrator claim is the "black workingman's motto" in the Prologue (20)?

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