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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) Silence.
(b) Nature.
(c) Music.
(d) Thought.

2. 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 being loud.”
(b) “Sing without melody.”
(c) “Eat without being vulnerable.”
(d) “Fly without being graceful.”

3. What city does the narrator describe as “a big, dull, red town” in Chapter 4?
(a) Atlanta.
(b) Miami.
(c) Biloxi.
(d) Knoxville.

4. Within how much time is the narrator able to speak Spanish like a native after working at the factory in Chapter 5?
(a) 6 months.
(b) 1 year.
(c) 2 years.
(d) 9 moths.

5. What is stolen along with the narrator’s money from his trunk in Chapter 4?
(a) A necktie.
(b) A pair of shoes.
(c) A hat.
(d) A jacket.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who shows the narrator to a boarding house in the beginning of Chapter 5?

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

3. How much money per week is the room that the narrator rents at the boarding house in the beginning of Chapter 5?

4. Who wrote the Christian allegory The Pilgrim's Progress from This World to That Which Is to Come?

5. How does the narrator describe the chairs in the parlor at the rooming house where he arrives in the beginning of Chapter 5?

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