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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 was the founder of Portland, Oregon?
(a) Erich Maria Remarque.
(b) Jon McJones.
(c) William Overton.
(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) Claymore.
(c) Capercallie.
(d) Cairn.
3. What does the narrator describe in Chapter 20 as "a thirty-minute celebration of the wonders and contributions of the mysterious Caucasian race to the world of leisure" (226)?
(a) "Whitey Week."
(b) "Caucasian Hour."
(c) "Anglo Day."
(d) "White Day."
4. What word in Chapter 18 is a chiefly South African word that is an insulting and contemptuous term for a black African?
(a) Lopo.
(b) Jag.
(c) Kink.
(d) Kaffir.
5. 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?
(a) New Yorker magazine.
(b) Life magazine.
(c) People magazine.
(d) Lowrider magazine.
Short Answer Questions
1. The narrator asserts in Chapter 17 that "In the history of American black people, there have been only two with the complete inability to tell a joke" (205). Who, aside from the narrator's father is unable to tell a joke?
2. Who are the three powerful and famous African-Americans that appeared at the meeting of the Dum Dum Donut Intellectuals in Chapter 19?
3. Who is the student that volunteered to help the narrator castrate a calf on Career Day?
4. Where did the narrator's father take him in order to expose him to racism in Chapter 13?
5. What day was it that the narrator set out to go to Dum Dum's in the end of Chapter 18?
Short Essay Questions
1. Who is Jon McJones and where does the narrator encounter him?
2. Why have the three cities that Dickens matched with refused to be sister cities?
3. What is "Whitey Week" and how is it defined in Chapter 20?
4. How did the narrator's father attempt to demonstrate racism to him backfire in Chapter 13?
5. What does the narrator demonstrate on Career Day at the Chaff Middle School?
6. What are the three lost cities that the narrator dictates to be sister cities to Dickens?
7. Who are the three famous living African Americans that attend the meeting in Chapter 19? How are their identities revealed?
8. What is Wheaton Academy and what role does it play in the plot of The Sellout?
9. Why does the narrator say he was reluctant to segregate the hospital in Chapter 20?
10. How is the narrator's satsuma tree employed as a symbol in the novel?
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