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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. Who wrote All Quiet on the Western Front?
2. How does the narrator describe the closing of the letter that summoned him to the Supreme Court in the Prologue?
3. What word from the novel refers to something formed of a single large block of stone?
4. What does the narrator lay out the three basic laws of in the opening of Chapter 3?
5. In Chapter 9, the narrator says that "history isn't the paper it's printed on" (144). What does he assert history is instead?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does the narrator encounter Marpessa in Chapter 9? What emerges in their meeting?
2. How did the narrator's father die?
3. How did the community respond when the narrator began his process of marking the boundaries of Dickens?
4. Why does the black woman slap the narrator in the Prologue?
5. What setting is established in the novel's Prologue? How is it described?
6. How is the narrator's home described? Where does he live?
7. Who is the unofficial leader of the Dum Dum Donut Intellectuals? How is he described?
8. How is Hominy Jenkins described by the narrator?
9. Why does Foy Cheshire reimagine and adapt classic novels like Huckleberry Finn?
10. How is the character of King Cuz described?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe and discuss the narrative style of The Sellout. From what perspective is the story related? Is the narrative related in the present, past, or future tense? Who is the presumed audience of the narrative?
Essay Topic 2
Analyze and discuss the protagonist of The Sellout. What is this character's approximate age? What is his profession? What are his actions, objectives, and obstacles in the story?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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