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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1-3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator say he had a particular fondness for in his childhood in Chapter 1?
(a) Pedals.
(b) White keys.
(c) Black keys.
(d) Slidebars.

2. What book does the narrator describe as having “used to lie in splendid neglect on the center table in our little parlor” in Chapter 2?
(a) The Episcopal Prayer-book.
(b) The Korah.
(c) The Bible.
(d) The Torah.

3. What nickname does the narrator give to the boy in his class whose face he describes as “black as night, but shone as though it was polished” in Chapter 1?
(a) Shiny.
(b) Red head.
(c) Onyx.
(d) Blue Eyes.

4. The narrator states in Chapter 2 of his mother that he did not remember “ever having seen her with a book in her hand, with the exception of” what?
(a) The Torah.
(b) The Bible.
(c) The Koran.
(d) The Episcopal Prayer-book.

5. The narrator says in Chapter 1 that he feels “a sort of diabolical desire to gather up all the little tragedies” of his life and turn them into what?
(a) “Anecdotes on nature’s whimsy.”
(b) “Fairy tales for the forgotten.”
(c) “A practical joke on society.”
(d) “Double rainbows.”

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator’s mother supported herself and her son by what means, according to the narrator in Chapter 1?

2. What does the narrator describe under the shed in the backyard of his childhood home in Chapter 1?

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

4. According to the narrator in Chapter 2, the two immediate results of his “forced loneliness” were finding company in books and greater pleasure in what?

5. Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

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