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

Multiple Choice 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?
(a) Thought.
(b) Nature.
(c) Music.
(d) Silence.

2. The narrator claims in Chapter 1, “As I look back now I can see that I was a perfect little” what?
(a) Citizen.
(b) Aristocrat.
(c) Patsy.
(d) Engineer.

3. Where does the narrator move with his mother in Chapter 1?
(a) Main.
(b) Connecticut.
(c) Georgia.
(d) Ohio.

4. The porter tells the narrator that he has not had how many hours of sleep since he left Jersey City in Chapter 4?
(a) 10.
(b) 12.
(c) 3.
(d) 6.

5. In Chapter 1, the narrator states that he is led to reveal his secret by the same impulse as what?
(a) “A blind rat.”
(b) “The unfound-out criminal.”
(c) “A nun lost in the woods.”
(d) “The doctor telling his patient he’ll die.”

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the nickname of the fourteen-year-old boy that the narrator befriends in Chapter 1?

2. 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?

3. 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?

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?

5. What does the tall man with the small, dark moustache drill a hole through in Chapter 1 as the narrator watches?

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