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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the author in Chapter 10, “Southerners are very much like” who “in that they must talk”?
(a) Englishmen.
(b) Frenchmen.
(c) Russians.
(d) Spaniards.

2. Where is the “slender be-spectacled young man” from that the narrator encounters on the train in Chapter 10?
(a) Ohio.
(b) Georgia.
(c) Maine.
(d) Massachusetts.

3. Where is the “tall, rawboned, red-faced man” from that the narrator encounters on the train in Chapter 10?
(a) Colorado.
(b) Texas.
(c) Illinois.
(d) Ohio.

4. What is a term used by the narrator to refer to a person who is born from one white parent and one black parent?
(a) Sicilian.
(b) Kiwi.
(c) Latino.
(d) Mulatto.

5. What dice game is being played in the back room at the refurbished bar and gambling house that the narrator attends in Chapter 6?
(a) Yahtzee.
(b) Craps.
(c) Shoot the Moon.
(d) Backgammon.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what institution does the narrator spend a day in Nashville in Chapter 10?

2. According to the narrator in Chapter 9, “A French child with a vocabulary of two hundred words can express more spoken ideas than a student of French can with a knowledge of” how many?

3. What does the Texan take out and drink during the racial discussion in the train car in Chapter 10?

4. Where had the Union soldier invested capital, according to the narrator in Chapter 10?

5. What character in the book is killed at the end of Chapter 8?

Short Essay Questions

1. What have critics noted in regard to the relationship between the millionaire and the narrator in the novel?

2. With whom does the narrator discuss race relations while on the train in Chapter 10?

3. How does the narrator describe the rooming house and landlord where he first stays in New York in Chapter 6?

4. What does the narrator do upon arriving in New York in Chapter 6?

5. How did the author incorporate slave narratives in his descriptions of the South in Chapter 10?

6. Where does the narrator go after returning to the United States in Chapter 10? Who does he meet?

7. What are the narrator’s impressions of the African Americans he meets in the rural South in Chapter 10?

8. How does the narrator describe the success of the Chinese restaurant under the “Club” in Chapter 7?

9. How is the millionaire described by the narrator? What does he look like?

10. What happens to the wealthy widow in Chapter 8? Why?

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