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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. The narrator describes the black Justice as looking at him with "that crazy, red-eyed penetrating look that back home we call" what (22)?
(a) "The Crip-side stare."
(b) "The royal stare."
(c) "The Willowbrook Avenue Stare."
(d) "The Roosevelt Avenue Stare."

2. How many students were in the narrator's graduating class in high school?
(a) Twenty-two.
(b) Twenty.
(c) Sixteen.
(d) One.

3. How much money does the narrator say he spent on his suit in the Prologue?
(a) $129.
(b) $95.
(c) $200.
(d) $430.

4. Whose theory of cognitive development is cited in Chapter 1?
(a) Jean Piaget.
(b) Robert Forster.
(c) Jean Genet.
(d) James White.

5. What is King Cuz's real name?
(a) Carl Williams.
(b) Andy Watkins.
(c) Curtis Baxter.
(d) Jean Piaget.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote All Quiet on the Western Front?

2. How is "ABD" defined by the narrator's father in Chapter 1 (36-37)?

3. Whom does the narrator describe in Chapter 1 as "the bitch next door and my only true love" during his childhood?

4. To what Shakespearean play does the narrator compare the Little Rascals in Chapter 6?

5. What word from Chapter 6 refers to a historical clerk, scribe, or notary?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the members of the Dum Dum Donut Intellectuals respond to the narrator's proposal to restore the City of Dickens?

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

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

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

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

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

7. How is the character of King Cuz described?

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

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

10. How does the narrator describe Hominy's birthday celebration?

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