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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 is the name of Marpessa's younger brother?

2. What word from Chapter 18 refers to a tomblike monument to someone buried elsewhere?

3. Where did the narrator's father take him in order to expose him to racism in Chapter 13?

4. What city is described as "the City That Never Stops Bleeding" by the narrator in "City Lites, An Interlude"?

5. What magazine was King Cuz flipping through when the narrator sat next to him at the meeting of the Dum Dum Donut Intellectuals in Chapter 19?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the narrator demonstrate on Career Day at the Chaff Middle School?

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

3. What actions does the narrator describe taking with Hominy in order to restore segregation in Dickens in Chapter 20?

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

5. Why have the three cities that Dickens matched with refused to be sister cities?

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. Who is Charisma Molina and what is her profession?

9. Who are the three famous living African Americans that attend the meeting in Chapter 19? How are their identities revealed?

10. How does Foy Cheshire respond to the signs announcing the establishment of Wheaton Academy?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 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 theme of racism in The Sellout. How does the author develop this theme through setting and characters? How is the theme related to symbolism and imagery in the novel? What statements do you think the author is making about racism? Why?

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