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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sections 13-16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator bring to the runaway slave when he encounters him in Section 10?
(a) A letter.
(b) A tub of water.
(c) A bale of hay.
(d) An old dog.

2. The “lunatic” described in Section 15 “will never sleep any more as he did in the cot” where?
(a) “In the living room.”
(b) “In the outhouse.”
(c) “In the barn.”
(d) “In his mother’s bedroom.”

3. With whom does the narrator describe spending “that day round the chowder-kettle” in Section 10?
(a) Bankers and businessmen.
(b) Farmers and ranchers.
(c) Drunks and criminals.
(d) Boatsmen and clam-diggers.

4. What adjective does the narrator use in describing the summer morning in Section 5?
(a) “Transparent.”
(b) “Retrograde.”
(c)
(d) “Boiling.”

5. The narrator claims to “lean and loafe at my ease observing” what, in Section 1?
(a) “The falling flakes of snow.”
(b) “A falling autumn leaf.”
(c) “A spear of summer grass.”
(d) “A blooming spring flower.”

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator describes being surrounded by “trippers” and what in the opening of Section 4?

2. What color shirt is “the negro” wearing in Section 13?

3. Which word from Section 12 means “limber” or “flexible”?

4. The narrator says in Section 13 to not call what creature “unworthy because she is not something else”?

5. How is the girl described that accompanies the youngster “up the bushy hill” in Section 8?

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