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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) 2 weeks.
(c) 1 month.
(d) 4 days.

2. The narrator states in Chapter 4 that he stood for an hour watching four or five men saving what by the road?
(a) A child.
(b) A mule.
(c) A dog.
(d) A cart of vegetables.

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

4. What genre of music does the narrator first hear at the “Club” in Chapter 6?
(a) Gospel.
(b) Blues.
(c) Reggae.
(d) Ragtime.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say he has never been good at because his “ideas of interpretation were always too strongly individual”?

2. The man that the narrator befriends on the ship in Chapter 10 has what profession?

3. Where do the narrator and four of his companions go to seek a lodging-house after arriving in New York in Chapter 6?

4. 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?

5. What term from Chapter 5 refers to a government led by a committee of military leaders?

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