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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose schoolwork did the narrator largely complete for him, as described in Chapter 2?
(a) Shiny's.
(b) Walter's.
(c) The Girl's.
(d) Red Head’s.

2. The narrator of the novel was born in a small town in what state?
(a) Georgia.
(b) Minnesota.
(c) New Mexico.
(d) Kansas.

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

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) “Extreme pressure.”
(c) “A die.”
(d) “Bad memories.”

5. 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) Silence.
(c) Music.
(d) Nature.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

4. By what age could the narrator play by ear all of the hymns and songs his mother knew?

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

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