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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who are the three powerful and famous African-Americans that appeared at the meeting of the Dum Dum Donut Intellectuals in Chapter 19?
(a) Bill Cosby, Condoleeza Rice, and Colin Powell.
(b) Booker T. Washington, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King, Jr.
(c) Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, and Malcolm X.
(d) Oprah Winfrey, Michael Jordan, and Colin Powell.

2. What word from Chapter 18 refers to a tomblike monument to someone buried elsewhere?
(a) Monacle.
(b) Cenotaph.
(c) Scrivener.
(d) Epitaph.

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

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

5. By what name does the narrator say he calls his marijuana in Chapter 11?
(a) Perspicacity.
(b) Panglossian.
(c) Nepotism.
(d) Blue Dream.

6. The narrator describes his "usual postcoital position" as "rolled up into a ball like" what, in Chapter 17 (202)?
(a) "A snake ready to strike."
(b) "A frightened teenage armadillo."
(c) "A catatonic mole unearthed."
(d) "A mouse in a church kitchen."

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

8. What movie does the narrator describe starring Charlie Chaplin and Paulette Goddard in Chapter 14?
(a) Green Lantern.
(b) Modern Times.
(c) The Great Dictator.
(d) The Kid.

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

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

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

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

13. 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) "Latino, Asian, and Black Only."
(c) "Black, Asian, and Latino Only."
(d) "Blacks Only."

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the narrator say he had to go in order to track down Cipriano "Candy" Marinez after he tried to flee his abusive family on horseback?

2. About how many people were at the meeting of the Dum Dum Donut Intellectuals that the narrator describes in Chapter 19?

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

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

5. What free alcoholic beverage was supplied at the meeting of the Dum Dum Donut Intellectuals described by the author in Chapter 19?

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