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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 term from Chapter 5 refers to a government led by a committee of military leaders?
(a) Tribunal.
(b) Revolution.
(c) Utopia.
(d) Junta.

2. The narrator says that when he was shown about the grounds of the university, he was especially interested in what building in Chapter 4?
(a) The industrial building.
(b) The gymnasium.
(c) The mathematics building.
(d) The library.

3. When was Frederick Douglass born?
(a) 1833.
(b) 1818.
(c) 1879.
(d) 1884.

4. In Chapter 5, the narrator compares the black man and his fight to what bearing the “fury of the storm”?
(a) “The redwood tree.”
(b) “The cedar tree.”
(c) “The willow tree.”
(d) “The bristlecone pine tree.”

5. The husband of the woman who runs the boarding house is from where in Chapter 5?
(a) Haiti.
(b) Mexico.
(c) Ecuador.
(d) Cuba.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator states in Chapter 2, “In the life of every one there is a limited number of unhappy experiences which are not written upon the memory, but stamped there with” what?

2. What does the narrator have for breakfast that is described as “so light and flaky that a fellow with any appetite at all would have no difficulty in disposing of eight or ten” in Chapter 4?

3. Within how much time is the narrator accounted the fastest at pulling the long stems from tobacco leaves at the factory in Chapter 5?

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

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

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