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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 is the City Match Consultant that called the narrator about his application with Dickens?
2. What did Hominy call the opposite of white flight in Chapter 12 (170)?
3. Because of Marpessa's schedule and her kids, she and the narrator could only date on what nights of the week when they rekindled their flame in Chapter 17?
4. 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?
5. What is the name of Charisma Molina's mother?
Short Essay Questions
1. Who is Jon McJones and where does the narrator encounter him?
2. What does the apple tree symbolize in Chapter 18?
3. How does the narrator respond to the autographed book he receives in Chapter 19? What is the book?
4. What are the three lost cities that the narrator dictates to be sister cities to Dickens?
5. Who are the three famous living African Americans that attend the meeting in Chapter 19? How are their identities revealed?
6. Why have the three cities that Dickens matched with refused to be sister cities?
7. Where does the narrator describe his father taking him in order to show him that racism still exists?
8. Who is Charisma Molina and what is her profession?
9. How is the narrator's satsuma tree employed as a symbol in the novel?
10. How does the narrator define sister cities in "City Lites: An Interlude"?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss depictions of racism in popular entertainment in The Sellout. What television shows, films, commercials, etc. are referenced or alluded to by the narrator? What racism or racist attitudes are described in these examples?
Essay Topic 2
Describe and analyze the character of Charisma Molina in the novel. How does Charisma know the narrator? What is her profession? How is Charisma involved in the central plot of the novel?
Essay Topic 3
Describe and discuss the setting of Dickens, California. Where is the long-lost City of Dickens located? Why was the city "deleted"? Where are the boundaries of the city and what is its proximity to other locations described in the greater Los Angeles area?
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