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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 Marco Polo."
(b) An "African-American Igor."
(c) An "African-American Frankenstein."
(d) An "African-American Paul Revere."

2. 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?
(a) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(b) Napoleon Bonaparte.
(c) Malcolm X.
(d) Bill Cosby.

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

4. What word from Chapter 18 refers to a tomblike monument to someone buried elsewhere?
(a) Epitaph.
(b) Scrivener.
(c) Monacle.
(d) Cenotaph.

5. What free alcoholic beverage was supplied at the meeting of the Dum Dum Donut Intellectuals described by the author in Chapter 19?
(a) Grey Goose.
(b) Jameson.
(c) Hennessey.
(d) Bushmills.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does the narrator say brought all the children of the neighborhood to his yard in Chapter 15?

4. What did Marpessa throw at Foy Cheshire, according to the narrator in Chapter 17?

5. What latest public-access show of Foy Cheshire's had just been cancelled in Chapter 19?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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