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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 is not allowed at the “Club,” according to the narrator in Chapter 7?
(a) Women.
(b) Loitering.
(c) Solicitation.
(d) Gambling.

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

3. The narrator states in Chapter 2, “And this is the dwarfing, warping, distorting influence which operates upon each colored man in the United States. He is forced to take his outlook on all things, not from the viewpoint of a citizen, or a man, nor even a human being, but from the viewpoint of” what?
(a) “A coloured man.”
(b) “A slave.”
(c) “Society.”
(d) “An animal.”

4. The narrator says in Chapter 1 that he feels “a sort of diabolical desire to gather up all the little tragedies” of his life and turn them into what?
(a) “Fairy tales for the forgotten.”
(b) “Double rainbows.”
(c) “A practical joke on society.”
(d) “Anecdotes on nature’s whimsy.”

5. 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?
(a) Onyx.
(b) Blue Eyes.
(c) Shiny.
(d) Red head.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is in the basement of the “Club” that the narrator goes to with his companions in Chapter 6?

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

3. The narrator claims in Chapter 8 that his section of New York is limited to how many blocks?

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

5. Where does the narrator move with his mother in Chapter 1?

(see the answer key)

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