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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator’s landlady tells him that the average price for a music teacher within the African American community is how much in Chapter 5?
(a) $0.25.
(b) $0.65.
(c) $0.40.
(d) $0.75.

2. The narrator’s mother supported herself and her son by what means, according to the narrator in Chapter 1?
(a) Giving violin lessons.
(b) Tutoring students.
(c) Growing vegetables.
(d) Sewing.

3. Who shows the narrator to a boarding house in the beginning of Chapter 5?
(a) A policeman.
(b) A judge.
(c) A minister.
(d) A butcher.

4. In Chapter 5, the narrator compares the black man and his fight to what bearing the “fury of the storm”?
(a) “The bristlecone pine tree.”
(b) “The cedar tree.”
(c) “The redwood tree.”
(d) “The willow tree.”

5. What does the tall man with the small, dark moustache drill a hole through in Chapter 1 as the narrator watches?
(a) A five-dollar silver piece.
(b) A two-dollar silver piece.
(c) A five-dollar gold piece.
(d) A ten-dollar gold piece.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. 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?

4. Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

5. 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?

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