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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. Who is the City Match Consultant that called the narrator about his application with Dickens?
(a) Susan Silverman.
(b) Curtis Baxter.
(c) Charisma Molina.
(d) Jean Piaget.

2. What word in Chapter 19 refers to a thick stick of blackthorn or oak used in Ireland as a weapon?
(a) Shillelagh.
(b) Cairn.
(c) Claymore.
(d) Capercallie.

3. What did Hominy call the opposite of white flight in Chapter 12 (170)?
(a) "White magnetism."
(b) "Forced integration."
(c) "The Ku Klux influx."
(d) "Reverse gentrification."

4. What does the narrator say has more "motion of the ocean" than him in Chapter 17 (201)?
(a) "A cotton-picking slave."
(b) "A fat man in a flat boat."
(c) "A plate of day-old sashimi."
(d) "A pier overlooking the sea."

5. Why did the narrator's father flee to Canada?
(a) To dodge the draft.
(b) To marry a white woman.
(c) To attain free healthcare.
(d) To escape slavery.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the Northridge quake occur that collapsed the roof of the school auditorium where the narrator demonstrated castrating a calf?

2. What adjective from Chapter 16 means wicked or criminal?

3. What is referred to by the narrator as "a presigious oceanfront private 'learning fulcrum'" in Chapter 12 (170)?

4. What magazine was King Cuz flipping through when the narrator sat next to him at the meeting of the Dum Dum Donut Intellectuals in Chapter 19?

5. Where is Kinshasa located?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why have the three cities that Dickens matched with refused to be sister cities?

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

3. Why do the neighborhood children gather in the narrator's yard in Chapter 15?

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

5. How is the narrator's satsuma tree employed as a symbol in the novel?

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

7. How does Foy Cheshire respond to the signs announcing the establishment of Wheaton Academy?

8. Why does the narrator say he was reluctant to segregate the hospital in Chapter 20?

9. What are the three lost cities that the narrator dictates to be sister cities to Dickens?

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

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