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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What caused Buckwheat's death?

2. What did Darla Hood die from in reality, according to the narrator in Chapter 6?

3. Who is the dominatrix that Hominy frequented at the BDSM club?

4. How is "ABD" defined by the narrator's father in Chapter 1 (36-37)?

5. What does the narrator lay out the three basic laws of in the opening of Chapter 3?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the narrator's father die?

2. What is the definition of satire and how does satire apply to The Sellout?

3. Why does Foy Cheshire reimagine and adapt classic novels like Huckleberry Finn?

4. What setting is established in the novel's Prologue? How is it described?

5. How did the community respond when the narrator began his process of marking the boundaries of Dickens?

6. How is the narrative related in The Sellout? From what perspective is the story told?

7. Who is Hampton Fiske and how is he described?

8. How does the narrator describe his father in Chapter 1?

9. How is the character of King Cuz described?

10. What happened on the occasions where the narrator attempted to emancipate Hominy?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What effects do the segregation signs on Marpessa's bus have? How does the narrator extend segregation beyond the bus? What indicators does the narrator erect to do so?

Essay Topic 2

Describe the death of the narrator's father and its impact on the narrator. How did the narrator's father die? Where did he die? How did the narrator discover him? How did he react?

Essay Topic 3

Analyze and discuss the character of F. K. Me in The Sellout. What is this character's profession? How is his relationship with his son depicted? Do you think this character is portrayed as a protagonist or antagonist? Why?

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