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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. The narrator describes Foy Cheshire as defiantly marching to his car as if he were leaving where under siege in Chapter 16?
(a) The Philippines.
(b) South Korea.
(c) North Korea.
(d) Vietnam.

2. Where did the narrator's father take him in order to expose him to racism in Chapter 13?
(a) Arkansas.
(b) Alabama.
(c) Mississippi.
(d) Louisiana.

3. What diagnosis did Marpessa determine for the narrator when he was 18?
(a) Depressive Disorder.
(b) Attachment Disorder.
(c) Bipolar Disorder.
(d) Social Anxiety Disorder.

4. The narrator describes himself in Chapter 18 as the Afrikaner parliamentarian in Johannesburg in what year?
(a) 1935.
(b) 1929.
(c) 1959.
(d) 1948.

5. What is Foy Cheshire's definition of WME in Chapter 19?
(a) Weapon of Mass Endowment.
(b) Weapon of Mass Enlightenment.
(c) Weapon of Mass Emasculation.
(d) Weapon of Mass Education.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is the name of the only movie theater in Dickens?

4. What does the narrator say that he's seen that were "funnier than my father's [comic] routine in Chapter 17 (206)?

5. What character wrote the book Mick, Please: The Black Irish Journey from Ghetto to Gaelic?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How does the narrator define sister cities in "City Lites: An Interlude"?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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