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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whom does the race discussion boil down to an argument between in the smoking train car in Chapter 10?
(a) The Union soldier and the Jew.
(b) The Jew and the Texan.
(c) Walter and the Jew.
(d) The Union soldier and the Texan.

2. 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”?
(a) “Proper and religious.”
(b) “Civilized and educated.”
(c) “Rich and enlightened.”
(d) “Cosmopolitan and tolerant.”

3. 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) Backgammon.
(b) Shoot the Moon.
(c) Craps.
(d) Yahtzee.

4. The narrator compares New York City to a great _________ at the gate of the country in Chapter 6?
(a) Troll.
(b) Serpent.
(c) Witch.
(d) Devil.

5. Who was the author of The Souls of Black Folk?
(a) W. E. B. Du Bois.
(b) Frederick Douglass.
(c) Langston Hughes.
(d) Zora Neale Hurston.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What genre of music does the narrator first hear at the “Club” in Chapter 6?

3. The narrator claims in Chapter 10, “I have no doubt that the Negro would make a good Chinaman, with exception of” what?

4. Where does the man that the narrator befriends on the ship ask him to stop for two or three days in Chapter 10?

5. What adjective from Chapter 6 means capable of or successful in producing an intended result?

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