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

2. Who did Hominy claim was "the original Little Rascal" (86)?
(a) Alfalafa.
(b) Buckwheat.
(c) Sunshine Sammy.
(d) Spanky.

3. The narrator states in Chapter 7 that "One of the many sad ironies of African-American life is that every banal dysfunctional social gathering is called" what (93-94)?
(a) "A gathering."
(b) "A pot-luck."
(c) "A 'function'."
(d) "A get-together."

4. One member of the Dum Dum Donut Intellectuals discusses his children being assigned what novel to read in school in Chapter 7?
(a) Anne of Green Gables.
(b) The Sun Also Rises.
(c) Huckleberry Finn.
(d) To Have and Have Not.

5. What does the narrator say "ain't easy" just like "pimpin' ain't easy" in the opening of Chapter 6 (80)?
(a) "Burying people."
(b) "Runnin' a gang."
(c) "Slaveholdin'."
(d) "Calling home."

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator claim is the "black workingman's motto" in the Prologue (20)?

2. What was the hero of the one comic book that the narrator ever owned?

3. What does "RTD" stand for (118)?

4. What word from Chapter 7 refers to the supernatural transformation of a person into a wolf?

5. How old was the narrator when he wrote his first scientific paper called "Passenger Seating Tendencies by Race and Gender"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Who is the unofficial leader of the Dum Dum Donut Intellectuals? How is he described?

4. Why does Foy Cheshire reimagine and adapt classic novels like Huckleberry Finn?

5. How is Hominy Jenkins described by the narrator?

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

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

8. Where does the narrator describe taking Hominy for "beatings" each Thursday?

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

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

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