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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. 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."

8. The narrator describes Foy Cheshire as defiantly marching to his car as if he were leaving where under siege in Chapter 16?
(a) North Korea.
(b) The Philippines.
(c) South Korea.
(d) Vietnam.

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

10. What verb in Chapter 19 means to dispute the truth, validity, or honesty of a statement or thing?
(a) Lycanthropy.
(b) Articulate.
(c) Impugn.
(d) Align.

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

12. Why does the narrator say he was struggling with growing potatoes in Chapter 18?
(a) The climate is too warm.
(b) The climate is too wet.
(c) The climate is too dry.
(d) The climate is too cold.

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) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(c) Malcolm X.
(d) Rosa Parks.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Marpessa throw at Foy Cheshire, according to the narrator in Chapter 17?

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)?

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

5. What city is described as "the City That Never Stops Bleeding" by the narrator in "City Lites, An Interlude"?

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