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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. Which of the following does the narrator note is present in the Reinhardt Uplift Center?

2. To which of the following does the mayor announce some criminals may be deported?

3. To which of the following does the narrator compare Crown’s music?

4. At which of the following intersections is the narrator obliged to stand for trial by ordeal?

5. Which of the following does Armbruster brag about signing to his company?

Short Essay Questions

1. What reasoning does Supercargo give for resigning from BEG?

2. What does the narrator expect to hear from his father when he visits him in prison?

3. What outcome from the attack on the festival does the narrator note for PHH?

4. What does the narrator note was on sale at earlier festivals at the Tiko?

5. What does the narrator find at Araminta’s house when he goes there in search of Nigel?

6. What reason does the narrator give for beginning to learn American Sign Language?

7. What reasons are given to the narrator for asking him to be BEG’s official spokesperson?

8. What effects does the narrator note demelanization had on Crooked Crown?

9. What reasons are given for disbelief in ADZE’s complicity in the mall attack?

10. What reasons does the narrator give for liking the Mall of the Seven Myrtles?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What purpose is served by the scene in which the narrator, Penny, and Nigel tour Shanksted Plantation, just before Nigel goes missing (50-54)? What in the text and experience indicates that purpose? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 2

Early on, the narrator notes the contents of Octavia’s library, which include Eyes without a Face, The Hip Hop Ontologist’s View of Leda and the Swan, and Blackstone’s Law; Octavia notes that the books are “real, but mainly for effect” (8). What effect are they likely to have, and why?

Essay Topic 3

Consider the following comment:

What was it about people who were late of the Motherland [Africa]? There was something about the cant of their cheeks and noses that made them instantly recognizable in relief to run-of-the-mill African Americans like myself. I guessed that people like this nurse’s ancestors were history’s victors, the lucky souls who had avoided the Middle Passage and miscegenation. Coffee never diluted by creamer (151).

Is the narrator’s assertion of luckiness accurate? What in the novel and in documented history suggests that it is or is not? How does it do so?

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