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Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

How does Hominy attempt to reverse Civil Rights on the bus? (from The Shit You Shovel, Chapter 6 – Exact Change, or Zen and the Art of Bus Riding and Relationship Repair, Chapter 10)

By finding a white woman to give his seat up to.

By always sitting at the back of the bus.

By painting himself in blackface.

By traveling to white areas and campaigning for a repeal of the Civil Rights Acts.

2.

What does the narrator explain to the court constitutes much of his problem? (from Prologue – The Shit You Shovel: Chapter 5)

He is black.

He was not raised any better.

He is legally academically-challenged.

He never knew his father.

3.

What ghost city becomes the sister city to Dickens? (from City Lites: An Interlude – Too Many Mexicans, Chapter 15)

Chernobyl.

The Lost City of White Male Privilege.

The Golden City of Eldorado.

Mogadishu.

4.

Why does the narrator argue that the word "nigger" should be left in classic literature? (from The Shit You Shovel, Chapter 6 – Exact Change, or Zen and the Art of Bus Riding and Relationship Repair, Chapter 10)

Nothing can alter the perception of timeless literature.

Foy is trying to make money off the backs of people who have already written.

Shetlering people from reality and history does them more harm than good.

Foy has stolen ideas from other people in the past, such as the narrator's father.

5.

For what reason is the narrator on trial at the Supreme Court? (from Prologue – The Shit You Shovel: Chapter 5)

Owning a slave.

Refusing service at a restaurant to an Asian woman.

Performing in blackface.

Hurling racist language at a group of white women.

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