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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 asserts in Chapter 18 that "the university apple orchards in Geneva, New York, are to the black market apple trade what Medellin, Columbia, is to" what (212)?
(a) "Marijuana."
(b) "Peyote."
(c) "Heroin."
(d) "Cocaine."

2. Where is Charisma Molina an assistant principal?
(a) Chaff Middle School.
(b) Wheaton Academy.
(c) Wilson Middle School.
(d) Smith Middle School.

3. What was the latest of Foy Cheshire's novel adaptations that he passed around at the Dum Dum Donut Intellectuals meeting in Chapter 19?
(a) The Cat and the Cancer.
(b) The Mob Gang.
(c) The Dopeman Cometh.
(d) The Adventures of Tom Soarer.

4. When did Charisma Molina's family move to Los Angeles?
(a) 1954.
(b) 1949.
(c) 1935.
(d) 1965.

5. When was the movie set for The Ten Commandments buried under the Nipomo Dunes?
(a) 1932.
(b) 1923.
(c) 1945.
(d) 1915.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the narrator say he was struggling with growing potatoes in Chapter 18?

2. What free alcoholic beverage was supplied at the meeting of the Dum Dum Donut Intellectuals described by the author in Chapter 19?

3. What is the name of Charisma Molina's mother?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did the narrator's father attempt to demonstrate racism to him backfire in Chapter 13?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What does Marpessa demonstrate on Career Day at the Chaff Middle School?

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