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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1, Childhood.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Latimer tell his story?
(a) Through diary analysis.
(b) Through flashbacks.
(c) Through dream interpretation.
(d) Through picture framing.

2. When the narrator rings the bell during the last moments of life, who comes in to help?
(a) No one.
(b) His father.
(c) Mrs. Archer.
(d) Bertha.

3. Why is Latimer examined by a phrenologist?
(a) Because Latimer cannot eat.
(b) Because Latimer keeps getting sick.
(c) Because Latimer has many bumps on his head.
(d) Becasue Latimer cannot sleep.

4. What will the narrator die from?
(a) A gunshot wound.
(b) Poison.
(c) A heart attack.
(d) A brain aneurysm.

5. What does Latimer's father do for a living?
(a) He is a con man.
(b) He is a mortician.
(c) He is a doctor.
(d) He is a banker.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which character can see their own death?

2. At what age does Latimer go to Switzerland?

3. What does Latimer read in secret?

4. What emotion does Eliot want readers to share with Latimer?

5. The narrator will die within what time period?

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