View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is stolen along with the narrator’s money from his trunk in Chapter 4?
(a) A pair of shoes.
(b) A hat.
(c) A jacket.
(d) A necktie.

2. Who does the narrator say stood at the head of his list of heroes for a long time in Chapter 2?
(a) King David.
(b) Jesus.
(c) Charles Darwin.
(d) Christopher Columbus.

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

4. The narrator’s companion tells him in Chapter 4 that all of the “respectable coloured people” eat where?
(a) At the diner.
(b) At the race track.
(c) At home.
(d) At the church.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To what educational institution is the narrator headed in the beginning of Chapter 4?

2. Whose schoolwork did the narrator largely complete for him, as described in Chapter 2?

3. What does the narrator say he has never been good at because his “ideas of interpretation were always too strongly individual”?

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?

5. The narrator’s mother supported herself and her son by what means, according to the narrator in Chapter 1?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 278 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample