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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Darla Hood die from in reality, according to the narrator in Chapter 6?
(a) AIDS.
(b) Syphilis.
(c) Hepatitis.
(d) Cancer.

2. The narrator asserts in Chapter 7 that Foy Cheshire's ownership of the most racist Little Rascal films is what?
(a) An honest truth.
(b) A conspiracy.
(c) A bald-faced lie.
(d) Urban legend.

3. How did Pete the Pup die?
(a) He swallowed an alarm clock.
(b) Cancer.
(c) Brain aneuryism.
(d) He choked on a bottle lid.

4. What word from the novel refers to something formed of a single large block of stone?
(a) Magnetic.
(b) Monolithic.
(c) Epistolarian.
(d) Archaic.

5. What was the hero of the one comic book that the narrator ever owned?
(a) Green Lantern.
(b) Batman.
(c) Aquaman.
(d) Superman.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say "ain't easy" just like "pimpin' ain't easy" in the opening of Chapter 6 (80)?

2. Who does the narrator refer to as the "Mother of the Modern-Day Civil Rights Movement" in Chapter 10 (127)?

3. In what key does the narrator say his father spoke in Chapter 1?

4. How does the narrator describe the closing of the letter that summoned him to the Supreme Court in the Prologue?

5. What does the narrator claim is the "calling card of the Chickasaw nation" (10)?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the narrator's home described? Where does he live?

2. What happened on the occasions where the narrator attempted to emancipate Hominy?

3. What setting is established in the novel's Prologue? How is it described?

4. What is the definition of satire and how does satire apply to The Sellout?

5. How is Hominy Jenkins described by the narrator?

6. Who is Hampton Fiske and how is he described?

7. What does the narrator remark about mottos in the Prologue?

8. How is the narrative related in The Sellout? From what perspective is the story told?

9. How did the narrator's father die?

10. What happened when the narrator's father attempted an experiment on bystander syndrome when the narrator was a child?

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