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

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?
(a) “Fairy tales for the forgotten.”
(b) “Double rainbows.”
(c) “A practical joke on society.”
(d) “Anecdotes on nature’s whimsy.”

3. Who wrote the Christian allegory The Pilgrim's Progress from This World to That Which Is to Come?
(a) Mason Williams.
(b) John Bunyan.
(c) Elliot Larkin.
(d) Jacob Smith.

4. With what does the narrator describe having been allowed to play by the tall man with the small, dark moustache in Chapter 1?
(a) A gold pocket watch.
(b) A 100-year-old sword.
(c) A puppy.
(d) A croquet set.

5. Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
(a) Frederick Douglass.
(b) Mark Twain.
(c) Louisa May Alcott.
(d) Harriet Beecher Stowe.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom does the narrator claim to have developed a “sympathetic bond” with at school in Chapter 2?

2. 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?

3. Whose schoolwork did the narrator largely complete for him, as described in Chapter 2?

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

5. How does the narrator say he changed his attitudes toward his peers after the discovery that he was biracial?

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