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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

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) Glass bottles.
(d) A white picket fence.

2. What is the Pullman car porter wearing when the narrator encounters him at a ball in Chapter 5?
(a) The narrator’s shoes.
(b) The narrator’s hat.
(c) The narrator’s jacket.
(d) The narrator’s tie.

3. During his stay in Paris, the narrator usually goes to the theater and ends up at the big café located where in Chapter 9?
(a) The Grand Boulevards.
(b) The Hotel Continental.
(c) The Champs Elysees.
(d) The Grand Opera.

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator states in Chapter 2, “And this is the dwarfing, warping, distorting influence which operates upon each colored man in the United States. He is forced to take his outlook on all things, not from the viewpoint of a citizen, or a man, nor even a human being, but from the viewpoint of” what?

2. What does the narrator buy for the women who give him French lessons at the café in Chapter 9?

3. How much money does the narrator lose on his second trip to the gambling house in Chapter 8?

4. How many years has it been since the narrator has seen his father when he encounters him in Chapter 9?

5. What food does the narrator describe as having the power of absorbing alcoholic liquors that have been taken into the stomach in Chapter 7?

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