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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator say he has never been good at because his “ideas of interpretation were always too strongly individual”?
(a) Running a business.
(b) Composing music.
(c) Interpreting the Bible.
(d) An accompanist.

2. The narrator says in Chapter 4, “I have since learned that this ability to laugh heartily is, in part, the salvation of the American Negro; it does much to keep him from going the way of the” what?
(a) “White man.”
(b) “Devil.”
(c) “Animals.”
(d) “Indian.”

3. 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?
(a) New York City.
(b) Washington, D.C.
(c) St. Louis.
(d) Chicago.

4. What does the narrator describe growing along the edge of the fence by the vegetable garden in Chapter 1?
(a) Tomatoes.
(b) Potatoes.
(c) Huckleberries.
(d) Blackberries.

5. How does the narrator say he changed his attitudes toward his peers after the discovery that he was biracial?
(a) He became more judgmental.
(b) He became more sympathetic.
(c) He became more reserved.
(d) He became more outspoken.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the tall man with the small, dark moustache drill a hole through in Chapter 1 as the narrator watches?

2. To whom does the narrator say he became inseparable in school in Chapter 2?

3. The narrator of the novel was born a few years after the close of what war?

4. How old is the narrator when his mother decides to enter him into public school?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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