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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 does the narrator describe as Hominy's favorite room at the BDSM club in Chapter 6?

2. What word from Chapter 6 refers to a historical clerk, scribe, or notary?

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

4. Why did the narrator claim poor people were the best drivers?

5. How old was Alfalfa when he was shot in the face?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does the narrator describe Hominy's work on the farm in Chapter 6?

3. How does the narrator encounter Marpessa in Chapter 9? What emerges in their meeting?

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

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

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

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

8. Where does the narrator describe taking Hominy for "beatings" each Thursday?

9. Why does the narrator construct a highway sign with the name Dickens on it?

10. How did the narrator's father die?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the theme of community as an essential component of identity in The Sellout. In what ways do the inhabitants of Dickens come together in the course of the story? What brings them together? How are their identities shaped by the re-establishment of Dickens?

Essay Topic 2

What charges have brought the narrator to the U.S. Supreme Court? How are the Justices of the Court described? How doe the Judges perceive the narrator and his crimes?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the genre of satire and how it applies to The Sellout. What aspects of the novel's plot are satirical? In what ways? How does irony play a role in the narrative?

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