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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator says that when he was shown about the grounds of the university, he was especially interested in what building in Chapter 4?
(a) The gymnasium.
(b) The library.
(c) The mathematics building.
(d) The industrial building.

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

3. What does the narrator have for breakfast that is described as “so light and flaky that a fellow with any appetite at all would have no difficulty in disposing of eight or ten” in Chapter 4?
(a) Waffles.
(b) Blueberry muffins.
(c) Biscuits.
(d) Pancakes.

4. What word from Chapter 7 means a frequent visitor to a place?
(a) Habitué.
(b) Truant.
(c) Commoner.
(d) Guest.

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?
(a) Meatloaf.
(b) Chop-suey.
(c) Lasagna.
(d) Salmon.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator states in Chapter 10, “It is the spirit of the South to defend everything belonging to it. The North is too” what “for such a spirit”?

2. Where is the “slender be-spectacled young man” from that the narrator encounters on the train in Chapter 10?

3. Where do the narrator and four of his companions go to seek a lodging-house after arriving in New York in Chapter 6?

4. What city does the narrator describe as “a big, dull, red town” in Chapter 4?

5. Whom does the race discussion boil down to an argument between in the smoking train car in Chapter 10?

(see the answer key)

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