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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 word does the narrator use in Chapter 6 meaning anything that transforms, purifies, or refines?
(a) Alembic.
(b) Eclipse.
(c) Tangible.
(d) Corrosive.

2. What food does the narrator describe as having the power of absorbing alcoholic liquors that have been taken into the stomach in Chapter 7?
(a) Salmon.
(b) Chop-suey.
(c) Lasagna.
(d) Meatloaf.

3. How much do the narrator and his companion each pay the waiter at the restaurant where they eat in Chapter 4?
(a) 10 cents.
(b) 50 cents.
(c) 20 cents.
(d) 75 cents.

4. What is in the basement of the “Club” that the narrator goes to with his companions in Chapter 6?
(a) A butcher shop.
(b) A brothel.
(c) A Chinese Chop-suey restaurant.
(d) Hundreds of boxes.

5. The narrator says in Chapter 5 that he picked up the cigar-maker’s habit of riding around in what on Sunday afternoons?
(a) A canoe.
(b) A horse cart.
(c) A hack.
(d) A sailboat.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

3. How does the narrator describe the chairs in the parlor at the rooming house where he arrives in the beginning of Chapter 5?

4. What nickname does the narrator give to the boy in his class whose face he describes as “black as night, but shone as though it was polished” in Chapter 1?

5. To whom does the narrator say he became inseparable in school in Chapter 2?

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