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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What magazine was King Cuz flipping through when the narrator sat next to him at the meeting of the Dum Dum Donut Intellectuals in Chapter 19?
(a) Lowrider magazine.
(b) People magazine.
(c) New Yorker magazine.
(d) Life magazine.

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

3. What does the narrator describe in Chapter 20 as "a thirty-minute celebration of the wonders and contributions of the mysterious Caucasian race to the world of leisure" (226)?
(a) "Caucasian Hour."
(b) "White Day."
(c) "Anglo Day."
(d) "Whitey Week."

4. What word in Chapter 18 is a chiefly South African word that is an insulting and contemptuous term for a black African?
(a) Kaffir.
(b) Lopo.
(c) Jag.
(d) Kink.

5. Because of Marpessa's schedule and her kids, she and the narrator could only date on what nights of the week when they rekindled their flame in Chapter 17?
(a) Thursdays and Fridays.
(b) Saturdays and Sundays.
(c) Mondays and Tuesdays.
(d) Tuesdays and Wednesdays.

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

7. To whom did the narrator give his last two satsuma mandarins in Chapter 15?
(a) King Cuz.
(b) Sheila Clark.
(c) Marpessa.
(d) Charisma.

8. 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.

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

10. The narrator describes himself in Chapter 18 as the Afrikaner parliamentarian in Johannesburg in what year?
(a) 1948.
(b) 1929.
(c) 1935.
(d) 1959.

11. What word in Chapter 19 refers to a thick stick of blackthorn or oak used in Ireland as a weapon?
(a) Cairn.
(b) Shillelagh.
(c) Claymore.
(d) Capercallie.

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

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

14. What is the area of Harlem paired with by City Match?
(a) Paris.
(b) Berlin.
(c) Juarez.
(d) Florence.

15. When was the movie set for The Ten Commandments buried under the Nipomo Dunes?
(a) 1932.
(b) 1923.
(c) 1915.
(d) 1945.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Charisma Molina an assistant principal?

2. What latest public-access show of Foy Cheshire's had just been cancelled in Chapter 19?

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

4. How does the narrator translate "Cogito, ergo Boogieum" to English in Chapter 14 (183)?

5. The narrator asserts in Chapter 18 that "the university apple orchards in Geneva, New York, are to the black market apple trade what Medellin, Columbia, is to" what (212)?

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