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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old is the narrator when his mother decides to enter him into public school?
(a) 15.
(b) 11.
(c) 9.
(d) 5.

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

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

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

5. What city does the narrator describe as “a big, dull, red town” in Chapter 4?
(a) Miami.
(b) Knoxville.
(c) Biloxi.
(d) Atlanta.

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. 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?

3. The narrator says in Chapter 4, “I have since learned that this ability to laugh heartily is, in part, the salvation of the American Negro; it does much to keep him from going the way of the” what?

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

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

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