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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 Bible.
(b) The Torah.
(c) The Korah.
(d) The Episcopal Prayer-book.

2. 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?
(a) “Vivid detail.”
(b) “A die.”
(c) “Bad memories.”
(d) “Extreme pressure.”

3. What city does the narrator describe as “a big, dull, red town” in Chapter 4?
(a) Knoxville.
(b) Biloxi.
(c) Atlanta.
(d) Miami.

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

5. The narrator of the novel was born a few years after the close of what war?
(a) World War II.
(b) The Civil War.
(c) World War I.
(d) The War of 1812.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Who wrote the Christian allegory The Pilgrim's Progress from This World to That Which Is to Come?

3. The narrator of the novel was born in a small town in what state?

4. What present does the narrator describe receiving from his father in Chapter 3?

5. What does the narrator say he had a particular fondness for in his childhood in Chapter 1?

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