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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In describing New York, the narrator states, “To some natures this stimulant of life in a great city becomes a thing as binding and necessary as” being addicted to what substance?
(a) Opium.
(b) Marijuana.
(c) Tobacco.
(d) Whiskey.

2. 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) Thought.
(b) Silence.
(c) Nature.
(d) Music.

3. What adjective from Chapter 6 means capable of or successful in producing an intended result?
(a) Erroneous.
(b) Efficacious.
(c) Indigenous.
(d) Platonic.

4. On what day of the week does the narrator’s mother play the piano in Chapter 1?
(a) Saturday.
(b) Friday.
(c) Sunday.
(d) Wednesday.

5. To whom does the narrator claim to have developed a “sympathetic bond” with at school in Chapter 2?
(a) Red Head.
(b) Joel Chandler Harris.
(c) The Girl.
(d) Shiny.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word does the narrator use in Chapter 6 meaning anything that transforms, purifies, or refines?

2. What does the narrator describe surrounding the flowers in the front yard of his childhood home in Chapter 1?

3. With what does the narrator describe having been allowed to play by the tall man with the small, dark moustache in Chapter 1?

4. How much money per week does the narrator earn as the “reader” at the cigar factory in Chapter 5?

5. What is the nickname of the fourteen-year-old boy that the narrator befriends in Chapter 1?

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