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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Where is Charisma Molina an assistant principal?
(a) Smith Middle School.
(b) Wilson Middle School.
(c) Chaff Middle School.
(d) Wheaton Academy.

5. 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 Marco Polo."
(d) An "African-American Frankenstein."

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

7. What did Marpessa throw at Foy Cheshire, according to the narrator in Chapter 17?
(a) A rock.
(b) A knife.
(c) An apple.
(d) An orange.

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

9. What does the narrator say brought all the children of the neighborhood to his yard in Chapter 15?
(a) The smell.
(b) The newspaper headline.
(c) The police.
(d) Rumors of money.

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

11. 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) Saturdays and Sundays.
(b) Thursdays and Fridays.
(c) Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
(d) Mondays and Tuesdays.

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

13. 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) Booker T. Washington.
(b) Rosa Parks.
(c) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(d) Malcolm X.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How much older is Nestor Lopez than the narrator?

2. 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)?

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

4. Who was the founder of Portland, Oregon?

5. What month was it that the narrator was trying to grow potatoes in Chapter 18?

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