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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 verb in Chapter 19 means to dispute the truth, validity, or honesty of a statement or thing?
(a) Impugn.
(b) Articulate.
(c) Lycanthropy.
(d) Align.

2. What did Foy Cheshire rename The Iceman Cometh?
(a) The Gangsta Cometh.
(b) The White-Man Cometh.
(c) The Ice-tea Cometh.
(d) The Dopeman Cometh.

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

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

5. Who was the founder of Portland, Oregon?
(a) Jean Piaget.
(b) William Overton.
(c) Erich Maria Remarque.
(d) Jon McJones.

Short Answer Questions

1. By what name does the narrator say he calls his marijuana in Chapter 11?

2. Who is the only white teacher at the middle school where the narrator demonstrated castrating a calf?

3. What month was it that the narrator was trying to grow potatoes in Chapter 18?

4. What did Foy Cheshire retitle The Great Gatsby as?

5. In the narrator's fantasy in Chapter 17, who does he describe telling Marpessa, "When you see Bonbon, the Cosmic Sellout and your one true love, cast down your panties where you are" (209)?

Short Essay Questions

1. Whom did Marpessa marry after leaving the narrator? How has her life changed?

2. What is "Whitey Week" and how is it defined in Chapter 20?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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