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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much money does the narrator lose on his second trip to the gambling house in Chapter 8?
(a) $185.
(b) $235.
(c) $50.
(d) $120.

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

3. The narrator states in Chapter 4 that he stood for an hour watching four or five men saving what by the road?
(a) A child.
(b) A dog.
(c) A mule.
(d) A cart of vegetables.

4. How old is the narrator when his mother decides to enter him into public school?
(a) 15.
(b) 5.
(c) 11.
(d) 9.

5. The porter tells the narrator that he has not had how many hours of sleep since he left Jersey City in Chapter 4?
(a) 12.
(b) 10.
(c) 6.
(d) 3.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much money does the narrator put in his trunk while his fellow roommates sleep in Chapter 4?

2. Why is the narrator returning to New York in the beginning of Chapter 6?

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

4. Approximately how much money does the landlord at the boarding house earn per week, according to the narrator in Chapter 5?

5. What habit does the narrator say he picked up on very young that “makes the piano a sympathetic, singing instrument” in Chapter 2?

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