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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On what day of the week does the narrator’s mother play the piano in Chapter 1?
(a) Saturday.
(b) Friday.
(c) Sunday.
(d) Wednesday.

2. Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
(a) Mark Twain.
(b) Frederick Douglass.
(c) Harriet Beecher Stowe.
(d) Louisa May Alcott.

3. 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?
(a) The Koran.
(b) The Torah.
(c) The Bible.
(d) The Episcopal Prayer-book.

4. 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) Silence.
(b) Thought.
(c) Music.
(d) Nature.

5. How does the narrator say he changed his attitudes toward his peers after the discovery that he was biracial?
(a) He became more reserved.
(b) He became more judgmental.
(c) He became more outspoken.
(d) He became more sympathetic.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom does the narrator claim to have developed a “sympathetic bond” with at school in Chapter 2?

2. What habit does the narrator say he picked up on very young that “makes the piano a sympathetic, singing instrument” in Chapter 2?

3. How many students does the narrator say are at the university in Chapter 4?

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

5. 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?

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