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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What character wrote the book Mick, Please: The Black Irish Journey from Ghetto to Gaelic?
(a) Foy Cheshire.
(b) King Cuz.
(c) Jon McJones.
(d) Jean Piaget.

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

3. What did Foy Cheshire rename The Iceman Cometh?
(a) The Ice-tea Cometh.
(b) The White-Man Cometh.
(c) The Dopeman Cometh.
(d) The Gangsta Cometh.

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

5. Why did the narrator's father flee to Canada?
(a) To attain free healthcare.
(b) To marry a white woman.
(c) To escape slavery.
(d) To dodge the draft.

6. What is the name of Charisma Molina's mother?
(a) Maria Molina.
(b) Anna Molina.
(c) Delores Molina.
(d) Sally Molina.

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

8. What was the latest of Foy Cheshire's novel adaptations that he passed around at the Dum Dum Donut Intellectuals meeting in Chapter 19?
(a) The Dopeman Cometh.
(b) The Adventures of Tom Soarer.
(c) The Mob Gang.
(d) The Cat and the Cancer.

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

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

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

12. Who is the City Match Consultant that called the narrator about his application with Dickens?
(a) Jean Piaget.
(b) Susan Silverman.
(c) Charisma Molina.
(d) Curtis Baxter.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What word in Chapter 18 is a chiefly South African word that is an insulting and contemptuous term for a black African?

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

3. What is the name of the fake school that the narrator has "erected" in Dickens?

4. 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)?

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

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