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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 old does the narrator say he was when he “appeared on a program with a number of adults at an entertainment given for some charitable purpose, and carried off the honors” in Chapter 2?
(a) 8.
(b) 17.
(c) 12.
(d) 14.

2. The narrator states in Chapter 2 that “a true artist can no more play upon the piano or violin without putting his whole body in accord with the emotions he is striving to express than a swallow can” do what?
(a) “Eat without being vulnerable.”
(b) “Sing without melody.”
(c) “Fly without being graceful.”
(d) “Sing without being loud.”

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

4. The narrator says in Chapter 4, “I have since learned that this ability to laugh heartily is, in part, the salvation of the American Negro; it does much to keep him from going the way of the” what?
(a) “White man.”
(b) “Devil.”
(c) “Indian.”
(d) “Animals.”

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator describe growing along the edge of the fence by the vegetable garden in Chapter 1?

2. 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?

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

4. 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?

5. The narrator of the novel was born a few years after the close of what war?

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