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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. When was the movie set for The Ten Commandments buried under the Nipomo Dunes?
(a) 1915.
(b) 1923.
(c) 1945.
(d) 1932.

2. What word from Chapter 15 means cheerful and full of energy?
(a) Ebullient.
(b) Perspicacity.
(c) Monolithic.
(d) Nepotistic.

3. How does the narrator refer to Hominy as he accompanied him in driving around town in Chapter 20?
(a) An "African-American Marco Polo."
(b) An "African-American Frankenstein."
(c) An "African-American Paul Revere."
(d) An "African-American Igor."

4. What day was it that the narrator set out to go to Dum Dum's in the end of Chapter 18?
(a) Monday.
(b) Sunday.
(c) Saturday.
(d) Thursday.

5. Where does the narrator say he had to go in order to track down Cipriano "Candy" Marinez after he tried to flee his abusive family on horseback?
(a) Santa Monica.
(b) Panorama City.
(c) Santa Maria.
(d) Hollywood Hills.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Foy Cheshire reassign as the name of Uncle Tom's Cabin?

2. What was the latest of Foy Cheshire's novel adaptations that he passed around at the Dum Dum Donut Intellectuals meeting in Chapter 19?

3. What latest public-access show of Foy Cheshire's had just been cancelled in Chapter 19?

4. What diagnosis did Marpessa determine for the narrator when he was 18?

5. How much older is Nestor Lopez than the narrator?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the narrator's father attempt to demonstrate racism to him backfire in Chapter 13?

2. What emotional disorder does the narrator tell the court he likely has?

3. What is burned at the ending of Career Day at Chaff Middle School? Why?

4. What does the apple tree symbolize in Chapter 18?

5. How does the narrator respond to the autographed book he receives in Chapter 19? What is the book?

6. What does the narrator demonstrate on Career Day at the Chaff Middle School?

7. Who are the three famous living African Americans that attend the meeting in Chapter 19? How are their identities revealed?

8. How does the narrator respond to Hominy's suggestions for new class systems in Dickens in Chapter 18?

9. Who is Jon McJones and where does the narrator encounter him?

10. What is Wheaton Academy and what role does it play in the plot of The Sellout?

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