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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What present does the narrator describe receiving from his father in Chapter 3?
(a) A fishing rod.
(b) A watch.
(c) A piano.
(d) A bicycle.

2. Who wrote the Christian allegory The Pilgrim's Progress from This World to That Which Is to Come?
(a) John Bunyan.
(b) Elliot Larkin.
(c) Jacob Smith.
(d) Mason Williams.

3. How much money does the narrator put in his trunk while his fellow roommates sleep in Chapter 4?
(a) $100.
(b) $1,000.
(c) $500.
(d) $300.

4. 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.”

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

Short Answer 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?

2. How does the narrator say he changed his attitudes toward his peers after the discovery that he was biracial?

3. How much do the narrator and his companion each pay the waiter at the restaurant where they eat in Chapter 4?

4. To whom does the narrator say he became inseparable in school in Chapter 2?

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?

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