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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator describe surrounding the flowers in the front yard of his childhood home in Chapter 1?
(a) A white picket fence.
(b) Large rocks.
(c) Glass bottles.
(d) Cherry trees.

2. What term from Chapter 5 refers to a government led by a committee of military leaders?
(a) Junta.
(b) Revolution.
(c) Utopia.
(d) Tribunal.

3. How much money per week is the room that the narrator rents at the boarding house in the beginning of Chapter 5?
(a) $2.00.
(b) $3.50.
(c) $7.95.
(d) $5.75.

4. How old is the narrator when his mother decides to enter him into public school?
(a) 15.
(b) 9.
(c) 11.
(d) 5.

5. Within how much time is the narrator accounted the fastest at pulling the long stems from tobacco leaves at the factory in Chapter 5?
(a) 10 days.
(b) 4 days.
(c) 2 weeks.
(d) 1 month.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old does the narrator say he was when he “appeared on a program with a number of adults at an entertainment given for some charitable purpose, and carried off the honors” in Chapter 2?

2. The narrator states in the beginning of Chapter 4 that the farther he got below __________, the more disappointed he became with the appearance of the country?

3. The narrator’s companion tells him in Chapter 4 that all of the “respectable coloured people” eat where?

4. In Chapter 5, the narrator compares the black man and his fight to what bearing the “fury of the storm”?

5. Who wrote the Christian allegory The Pilgrim's Progress from This World to That Which Is to Come?

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