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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator states in Chapter 2, “And this is the dwarfing, warping, distorting influence which operates upon each colored man in the United States. He is forced to take his outlook on all things, not from the viewpoint of a citizen, or a man, nor even a human being, but from the viewpoint of” what?
(a) “Society.”
(b) “A slave.”
(c) “A coloured man.”
(d) “An animal.”

2. The narrator describes the poker players as practicing what sort of politeness for each other in Chapter 6?
(a) Orwellian.
(b) Aristotelian.
(c) Platonic.
(d) Chesterfieldian.

3. What is the nickname of the fourteen-year-old boy that the narrator befriends in Chapter 1?
(a) Black hair.
(b) Blue foot.
(c) Red Head.
(d) Green eyes.

4. In Chapter 5, the narrator compares the black man and his fight to what bearing the “fury of the storm”?
(a) “The redwood tree.”
(b) “The bristlecone pine tree.”
(c) “The willow tree.”
(d) “The cedar tree.”

5. To what educational institution is the narrator headed in the beginning of Chapter 4?
(a) Boston University.
(b) New York University.
(c) Dallas University.
(d) Atlanta University.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

2. In describing New York, the narrator states, “To some natures this stimulant of life in a great city becomes a thing as binding and necessary as” being addicted to what substance?

3. What does the narrator describe surrounding the flowers in the front yard of his childhood home in Chapter 1?

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

5. The narrator states in Chapter 2, “In the life of every one there is a limited number of unhappy experiences which are not written upon the memory, but stamped there with” what?

(see the answer key)

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