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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 is described as the sister city to Algiers in "City Lites, An Interlude"?
(a) Florence.
(b) Paris.
(c) Juarez.
(d) Berlin.

2. What month was it that the narrator was trying to grow potatoes in Chapter 18?
(a) March.
(b) November.
(c) April.
(d) June.

3. Which of the three signs presented by the narrator was the one that was most chosen by the small-business people of Dickens in Chapter 20 (225)?
(a) "No Whites Allowed."
(b) "Latino, Asian, and Black Only."
(c) "Blacks Only."
(d) "Black, Asian, and Latino Only."

4. At what time each day on Monday through Friday would Hominy appear by the narrator's truck to segregate Dickens in Chapter 20?
(a) 3:00 p.m.
(b) 2:00 p.m.
(c) 1:00 p.m.
(d) 12:00 p.m.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Charisma Molina's family move to Los Angeles?

2. Why did the narrator's father flee to Canada?

3. What movie does the narrator describe starring Charlie Chaplin and Paulette Goddard in Chapter 14?

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

5. What did Foy Cheshire rename The Iceman Cometh?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the narrator slip out of the meeting in Chapter 19?

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

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

4. Where does the narrator describe his father taking him in order to show him that racism still exists?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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