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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator states in Chapter 5, “I am sure it would be safe to wager that no group of Southern white men could get together and talk for sixty minutes without bringing up” what?
(a) The weather.
(b) Women.
(c) The race question.
(d) Their children.

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

3. The narrator claims in Chapter 1, “As I look back now I can see that I was a perfect little” what?
(a) Patsy.
(b) Aristocrat.
(c) Engineer.
(d) Citizen.

4. According to the narrator in Chapter 2, the two immediate results of his “forced loneliness” were finding company in books and greater pleasure in what?
(a) Silence.
(b) Nature.
(c) Music.
(d) Thought.

5. What is the nickname of the fourteen-year-old boy that the narrator befriends in Chapter 1?
(a) Black hair.
(b) Red Head.
(c) Blue foot.
(d) Green eyes.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 5, the narrator compares the black man and his fight to what bearing the “fury of the storm”?

2. The narrator’s companion tells him in Chapter 4 that all of the “respectable coloured people” eat where?

3. Who does the narrator say stood at the head of his list of heroes for a long time in Chapter 2?

4. What is a term used by the narrator to refer to a person who is born from one white parent and one black parent?

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

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