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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Hominy call the opposite of white flight in Chapter 12 (170)?
(a) "Reverse gentrification."
(b) "White magnetism."
(c) "Forced integration."
(d) "The Ku Klux influx."

2. 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)?
(a) "Peyote."
(b) "Heroin."
(c) "Marijuana."
(d) "Cocaine."

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

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

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

6. What word from Chapter 15 means cheerful and full of energy?
(a) Monolithic.
(b) Perspicacity.
(c) Nepotistic.
(d) Ebullient.

7. When did Charisma Molina's family move to Los Angeles?
(a) 1935.
(b) 1949.
(c) 1954.
(d) 1965.

8. What does the narrator say that he's seen that were "funnier than my father's [comic] routine in Chapter 17 (206)?
(a) "Chicken slaughters."
(b) "Ganster murders."
(c) "Self-immolations."
(d) "Criminal executions."

9. Which of the three signs presented by the narrator was the one that was most chosen by the small-business people of Dickens in Chapter 20 (225)?
(a) "Blacks Only."
(b) "Latino, Asian, and Black Only."
(c) "Black, Asian, and Latino Only."
(d) "No Whites Allowed."

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

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

13. How does the narrator translate "Cogito, ergo Boogieum" to English in Chapter 14 (183)?
(a) "I think, therefore I run."
(b) "I think, therere I dance."
(c) "I think, therefore I am."
(d) "I think, therefore I jam."

14. What does the narrator say the best apples taste like in Chapter 18?
(a) Candy.
(b) Peaches.
(c) Oranges.
(d) Watermelons.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the latest of Foy Cheshire's novel adaptations that he passed around at the Dum Dum Donut Intellectuals meeting in Chapter 19?

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

4. What is referred to by the narrator as "a presigious oceanfront private 'learning fulcrum'" in Chapter 12 (170)?

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

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