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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the Pullman car porter wearing when the narrator encounters him at a ball in Chapter 5?
(a) The narrator’s shoes.
(b) The narrator’s tie.
(c) The narrator’s jacket.
(d) The narrator’s hat.

2. What does the narrator say he had a particular fondness for in his childhood in Chapter 1?
(a) Black keys.
(b) Slidebars.
(c) White keys.
(d) Pedals.

3. 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) Mulatto.
(d) Latino.

4. What does the narrator claim the men gambling in the dice room are wearing in Chapter 6?
(a) Suits.
(b) Overalls.
(c) Sombreros.
(d) Linen dusters.

5. What book does the narrator describe as having “used to lie in splendid neglect on the center table in our little parlor” in Chapter 2?
(a) The Torah.
(b) The Bible.
(c) The Episcopal Prayer-book.
(d) The Korah.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is the narrator when his mother decides to enter him into public school?

2. The landlady and her husband at the boarding house tell the narrator that the big winter hotels would not open within how much time in the beginning of Chapter 5?

3. The porter tells the narrator that he has not had how many hours of sleep since he left Jersey City in Chapter 4?

4. The narrator claims in Chapter 8 that he “used to play whose "Wedding March" in a manner that never failed to arouse enthusiasm among the patrons of the "Club”?

5. To whom does the narrator claim to have developed a “sympathetic bond” with at school in Chapter 2?

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