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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator have for breakfast that is described as “boiled to the consistency where it could be eaten with a fork” in Chapter 4?
(a) Crawfish.
(b) Chitlins.
(c) Hominy.
(d) Collard greens.

2. To whom does the narrator say he became inseparable in school in Chapter 2?
(a) The Girl.
(b) Red Head.
(c) Shiny.
(d) Joel Chandler Harris.

3. 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) “Double rainbows.”
(b) “Anecdotes on nature’s whimsy.”
(c) “Fairy tales for the forgotten.”
(d) “A practical joke on society.”

4. 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?
(a) The Korah.
(b) The Torah.
(c) The Episcopal Prayer-book.
(d) The Bible.

5. What does the narrator describe under the shed in the backyard of his childhood home in Chapter 1?
(a) Animal feed.
(b) Wooden wash-tubs.
(c) Bicycles.
(d) Shovel and plow.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. It is the narrator’s duty to bring what to the tall man with the small, dark moustache when he visits in Chapter 1?

3. The narrator says that when he was shown about the grounds of the university, he was especially interested in what building in Chapter 4?

4. The narrator states in Chapter 2 of his mother that he did not remember “ever having seen her with a book in her hand, with the exception of” what?

5. The narrator states in Chapter 4 that he stood for an hour watching four or five men saving what by the road?

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