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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. About how many people were at the meeting of the Dum Dum Donut Intellectuals that the narrator describes in Chapter 19?
(a) 10.
(b) 20.
(c) 30.
(d) 15.

2. What latest public-access show of Foy Cheshire's had just been cancelled in Chapter 19?
(a) Black Stand.
(b) Black Republic.
(c) Black Talk.
(d) Black Checker.

3. What college has been breeding the world's best apples since the late 1890s, according to the narrator in Chapter 18?
(a) UCLA.
(b) Berkeley College.
(c) New York University.
(d) Cornell University.

4. What city is described as "the City That Never Stops Bleeding" by the narrator in "City Lites, An Interlude"?
(a) Paris.
(b) Berlin.
(c) Juarez.
(d) Florence.

5. When did the Northridge quake occur that collapsed the roof of the school auditorium where the narrator demonstrated castrating a calf?
(a) 1990.
(b) 1985.
(c) 1994.
(d) 1979.

6. 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?
(a) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(b) Bill Cosby.
(c) Napoleon Bonaparte.
(d) Malcolm X.

7. What does the narrator say has more "motion of the ocean" than him in Chapter 17 (201)?
(a) "A cotton-picking slave."
(b) "A pier overlooking the sea."
(c) "A fat man in a flat boat."
(d) "A plate of day-old sashimi."

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

9. Who are the three powerful and famous African-Americans that appeared at the meeting of the Dum Dum Donut Intellectuals in Chapter 19?
(a) Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, and Malcolm X.
(b) Oprah Winfrey, Michael Jordan, and Colin Powell.
(c) Booker T. Washington, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King, Jr.
(d) Bill Cosby, Condoleeza Rice, and Colin Powell.

10. What is the name of the fake school that the narrator has "erected" in Dickens?
(a) The Wheaton Academy.
(b) The Roosevelt Academy.
(c) The Carlton Academy.
(d) The Wilson Academy.

11. What is the name of Marpessa's younger brother?
(a) Stevie Dawson.
(b) Erich Maria Remarque.
(c) Curtis Baxter.
(d) Carl Williams.

12. What is referred to by the narrator as "a presigious oceanfront private 'learning fulcrum'" in Chapter 12 (170)?
(a) Intersection Academy.
(b) Riverdale Academy.
(c) Smithson Academy.
(d) Wheaton Academy.

13. What did Foy Cheshire reassign as the name of Uncle Tom's Cabin?
(a) Uncle Jack's Highway.
(b) Uncle Tom's Condo.
(c) Uncle Terry's Cabin.
(d) Uncle Tom's Cabana.

14. What did Foy Cheshire retitle The Great Gatsby as?
(a) The Great Contraption.
(b) The Great Emancipation.
(c) The Great Gary.
(d) The Great Blacksby.

15. What diagnosis did Marpessa determine for the narrator when he was 18?
(a) Depressive Disorder.
(b) Attachment Disorder.
(c) Social Anxiety Disorder.
(d) Bipolar Disorder.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. By what name does the narrator say he calls his marijuana in Chapter 11?

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

4. What adjective from Chapter 16 means wicked or criminal?

5. Who is the student that volunteered to help the narrator castrate a calf on Career Day?

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