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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 Foy Cheshire's definition of WME in Chapter 19?

2. How many times does the narrator say he has experienced direct discrimination based on race in Chapter 13?

3. What is referred to by the narrator as "a presigious oceanfront private 'learning fulcrum'" in Chapter 12 (170)?

4. What did Foy Cheshire reassign as the name of Uncle Tom's Cabin?

5. What was the latest of Foy Cheshire's novel adaptations that he passed around at the Dum Dum Donut Intellectuals meeting in Chapter 19?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Wheaton Academy and what role does it play in the plot of The Sellout?

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

3. Whom did Marpessa marry after leaving the narrator? How has her life changed?

4. How is the narrator's satsuma tree employed as a symbol in the novel?

5. Who is Jon McJones and where does the narrator encounter him?

6. How does the narrator respond to Hominy's suggestions for new class systems in Dickens in Chapter 18?

7. Why does the narrator say he was reluctant to segregate the hospital in Chapter 20?

8. What does Marpessa demonstrate on Career Day at the Chaff Middle School?

9. How did the narrator's father attempt to demonstrate racism to him backfire in Chapter 13?

10. How does the narrator respond to the autographed book he receives in Chapter 19? What is the book?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

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 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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