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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 claim is the "calling card of the Chickasaw nation" (10)?
(a) "In Tune with Earth and Skies."
(b) "The Water Whisperers."
(c) "Above and Beyond."
(d) "Unconquered and Unconquerable."

2. Of "Little Scotty Beckett," the narrator says, "Scotty was a big-eyed Rascal who used to run with" whom, in Chapter 6 (84)?
(a) Buckwheat.
(b) Hominy.
(c) Fat Albet.
(d) Spanky.

3. What word used in the Prologue is an adjective describing a person who is optimistic regardless of the circumstances?
(a) Panglossian.
(b) Epistolarian.
(c) Articulate.
(d) Monolithic.

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

5. For how long did the faked contract read that Hominy had been the narrator's slave when he was emancipated?
(a) Six years.
(b) Six months.
(c) Two weeks.
(d) Three weeks.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did the narrator claim poor people were the best drivers?

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

3. What date did the narrator use on his emancipation of Hominy in Chapter 6?

4. What does the narrator say that L.A. is about in Chapter 9?

5. How much money does the narrator say he spent on his suit in the Prologue?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. How did the narrator's father die?

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

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

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

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