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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator refer to Hominy as he accompanied him in driving around town in Chapter 20?
(a) An "African-American Frankenstein."
(b) An "African-American Paul Revere."
(c) An "African-American Igor."
(d) An "African-American Marco Polo."

2. What adjective from Chapter 16 means wicked or criminal?
(a) Nefarious.
(b) Nepotistic.
(c) Monolithic.
(d) Ebullient.

3. What movie does the narrator describe starring Charlie Chaplin and Paulette Goddard in Chapter 14?
(a) Modern Times.
(b) Green Lantern.
(c) The Kid.
(d) The Great Dictator.

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

5. What free alcoholic beverage was supplied at the meeting of the Dum Dum Donut Intellectuals described by the author in Chapter 19?
(a) Hennessey.
(b) Bushmills.
(c) Grey Goose.
(d) Jameson.

6. The narrator describes his "usual postcoital position" as "rolled up into a ball like" what, in Chapter 17 (202)?
(a) "A catatonic mole unearthed."
(b) "A frightened teenage armadillo."
(c) "A snake ready to strike."
(d) "A mouse in a church kitchen."

7. Where is Kinshasa located?
(a) The Pacific Coast Mountain Range.
(b) The Democratic Republic of the Congo.
(c) The Appalachian Mountains.
(d) Haiti.

8. What is described as the sister city to Algiers in "City Lites, An Interlude"?
(a) Paris.
(b) Berlin.
(c) Juarez.
(d) Florence.

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

10. What day was it that the narrator set out to go to Dum Dum's in the end of Chapter 18?
(a) Thursday.
(b) Sunday.
(c) Monday.
(d) Saturday.

11. What word from the novel refers to the practice among those with power or influence of favoring relatives or friends, particularly by giving them jobs?
(a) Nepotism.
(b) Lycanthropy.
(c) Jurisprudence.
(d) Egalitarianism.

12. In the narrator's fantasy in Chapter 17, who does he describe telling Marpessa, "When you see Bonbon, the Cosmic Sellout and your one true love, cast down your panties where you are" (209)?
(a) Rosa Parks.
(b) Booker T. Washington.
(c) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(d) Malcolm X.

13. What did Foy Cheshire rename The Iceman Cometh?
(a) The Dopeman Cometh.
(b) The Ice-tea Cometh.
(c) The Gangsta Cometh.
(d) The White-Man Cometh.

14. Who directed the film The Ten Commandments?
(a) Cecil B. DeMille.
(b) Susan Silverman.
(c) Rob Reiner.
(d) Fellini.

15. Where was Oscar Zocalo lab partners with the narrator?
(a) Harvard.
(b) Henderson.
(c) Riverside.
(d) Yale.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator asserts in Chapter 17 that "In the history of American black people, there have been only two with the complete inability to tell a joke" (205). Who, aside from the narrator's father is unable to tell a joke?

2. What is the area of Harlem paired with by City Match?

3. What word in Chapter 18 is a chiefly South African word that is an insulting and contemptuous term for a black African?

4. What character wrote the book Mick, Please: The Black Irish Journey from Ghetto to Gaelic?

5. What is describe as "the hillbilly neighborhood about ten miles north of Dickens" in Chapter 14 (180)?

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