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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the narrator move with his mother in Chapter 1?
(a) Georgia.
(b) Main.
(c) Ohio.
(d) Connecticut.

2. What present does the narrator describe receiving from his father in Chapter 3?
(a) A watch.
(b) A piano.
(c) A fishing rod.
(d) A bicycle.

3. 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 Korah.
(b) The Episcopal Prayer-book.
(c) The Torah.
(d) The Bible.

4. The narrator claims in Chapter 1, “As I look back now I can see that I was a perfect little” what?
(a) Aristocrat.
(b) Citizen.
(c) Patsy.
(d) Engineer.

5. The narrator states in Chapter 2 that “a true artist can no more play upon the piano or violin without putting his whole body in accord with the emotions he is striving to express than a swallow can” do what?
(a) “Sing without melody.”
(b) “Sing without being loud.”
(c) “Eat without being vulnerable.”
(d) “Fly without being graceful.”

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

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?

4. 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?

5. What does the narrator say he had a particular fondness for in his childhood in Chapter 1?

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