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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 does the narrator lay out the three basic laws of in the opening of Chapter 3?
(a) Racial interactions.
(b) Court appearances.
(c) Basketball.
(d) Ghetto physics.

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

3. What is the name of the social psychology bible that the narrator's father took with him to talk down folks in his town?
(a) The Path to Enlightenment.
(b) The Planning of Change.
(c) The Blue Future of Life.
(d) The Faith and the Fury.

4. For what musician does the narrator claim to have a strange affinity in Chapter 1?
(a) The Who.
(b) The Beegees.
(c) Michael Jackson.
(d) Neil Young.

5. For what college was the narrator's father the interim dean?
(a) Hollywood Hills Community College.
(b) West Riverside Community College.
(c) South Los Angeles Community College.
(d) Citrus Heights Community College.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How did Pete the Pup die?

3. Who wrote All Quiet on the Western Front?

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

5. What is King Cuz's real name?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How is the character of King Cuz described?

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

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

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

7. How did the narrator's father die?

8. Why does the narrator construct a highway sign with the name Dickens on it?

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

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

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