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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. How does the narrator refer to Hominy as he accompanied him in driving around town in Chapter 20?
(a) An "African-American Paul Revere."
(b) An "African-American Frankenstein."
(c) An "African-American Igor."
(d) An "African-American Marco Polo."

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

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

4. What adjective from Chapter 16 means wicked or criminal?
(a) Ebullient.
(b) Monolithic.
(c) Nepotistic.
(d) Nefarious.

5. 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) "Blacks Only."
(b) "No Whites Allowed."
(c) "Latino, Asian, and Black Only."
(d) "Black, Asian, and Latino Only."

Short Answer Questions

1. Who directed the film The Ten Commandments?

2. What does the narrator say is the "beauty of minstrelsy" in Chapter 15 (188)?

3. What is the name of the fake school that the narrator has "erected" in Dickens?

4. Where was Oscar Zocalo lab partners with the narrator?

5. Where did the narrator's father take him in order to expose him to racism in Chapter 13?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is burned at the ending of Career Day at Chaff Middle School? Why?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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