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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Foy Cheshire retitle The Great Gatsby as?
(a) The Great Gary.
(b) The Great Contraption.
(c) The Great Blacksby.
(d) The Great Emancipation.

2. Who is the student that volunteered to help the narrator castrate a calf on Career Day?
(a) Sheila Clark.
(b) Jean Piaget.
(c) Curtis Baxter.
(d) Susan Silverman.

3. How much older is Nestor Lopez than the narrator?
(a) Ten years older.
(b) Three years older.
(c) Two years older.
(d) Four years older.

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

5. 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) Cairn.
(d) Claymore.

6. Where is the long-lost city of Dollersheim located?
(a) Austria.
(b) France.
(c) Italy.
(d) Russia.

7. 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) "No Whites Allowed."
(b) "Blacks Only."
(c) "Black, Asian, and Latino Only."
(d) "Latino, Asian, and Black Only."

8. Who was the founder of Portland, Oregon?
(a) Jon McJones.
(b) William Overton.
(c) Jean Piaget.
(d) Erich Maria Remarque.

9. What is the name of the only movie theater in Dickens?
(a) The Roxy.
(b) The Sagan.
(c) The Meralta.
(d) The Carlton.

10. 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) Berkeley College.
(c) New York University.
(d) UCLA.

11. At what time each day on Monday through Friday would Hominy appear by the narrator's truck to segregate Dickens in Chapter 20?
(a) 1:00 p.m.
(b) 12:00 p.m.
(c) 3:00 p.m.
(d) 2:00 p.m.

12. What does the narrator say is the "beauty of minstrelsy" in Chapter 15 (188)?
(a) Its irony.
(b) Its overt racism.
(c) Its timelessness.
(d) Its satire.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say brought all the children of the neighborhood to his yard in Chapter 15?

2. 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?

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

4. What diagnosis did Marpessa determine for the narrator when he was 18?

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

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