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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 is the name of the BDSM club on the Westside where the narrator contracted to dole out Hominy's punishments for him?
(a) The Devil's Den.
(b) The Black Cat.
(c) Sticks and Stones.
(d) The Hot Kitchen.

2. What word from Chapter 7 refers to the supernatural transformation of a person into a wolf?
(a) Jurisprudence.
(b) Lycanthropy.
(c) Monopoly.
(d) Panglossian.

3. How does the narrator describe the closing of the letter that summoned him to the Supreme Court in the Prologue?
(a) Sincerely yours, The Congress of the United States of America.
(b) Sincerely yours, The Senate of the United States of America.
(c) Sincerely yours, The President of the United States of America.
(d) Sincerely yours, The People of the United States of America.

4. What does "RTD" stand for (118)?
(a) Road Transportation Department.
(b) Road Transfer Division.
(c) Railway Transport Department.
(d) Rapid Transit District.

5. How is "ABD" defined by the narrator's father in Chapter 1 (36-37)?
(a) "American Board of Dentists."
(b) "All But Dead."
(c) "All Bewarned and Die."
(d) "All But Defeated."

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator describe as Hominy's favorite room at the BDSM club in Chapter 6?

2. Who is the dominatrix that Hominy frequented at the BDSM club?

3. Who wrote All Quiet on the Western Front?

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

5. How does the narrator describe the current state of the Union in the Prologue?

Short Essay Questions

1. When and where do the Dum Dum Donut Intellectuals meet?

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

3. How did the narrator's father die?

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

5. How does the narrator describe Hominy's work on the farm in Chapter 6?

6. How did the community respond when the narrator began his process of marking the boundaries of Dickens?

7. What are the three basic laws of ghetto physics that the narrator describes in Chapter 3?

8. How does the narrator describe his father in Chapter 1?

9. How does the narrator encounter Marpessa in Chapter 9? What emerges in their meeting?

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

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