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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator states in Chapter 5, “I am sure it would be safe to wager that no group of Southern white men could get together and talk for sixty minutes without bringing up” what?
(a) Women.
(b) The race question.
(c) Their children.
(d) The weather.

2. The man that the narrator befriends on the ship in Chapter 10 has what profession?
(a) Artist.
(b) Teacher.
(c) Physician.
(d) Banker.

3. Who is described as was “fierce, eloquent and profane in his argument and, in a lower sense, there was a direct logic in what he said, which was convincing” in Chapter 10?
(a) Shiny.
(b) The Jew.
(c) The Union soldier.
(d) The Texan.

4. To what does the narrator compare a massive iceberg viewed from the ship in Chapter 9?
(a) A mesa.
(b) A diamond.
(c) A mountain.
(d) An opal.

5. At what institution does the narrator spend a day in Nashville in Chapter 10?
(a) Fisk University.
(b) The University of Tennessee.
(c) Nashville State University.
(d) Howard University.

Short Answer Questions

1. Within how much time is the narrator able to speak Spanish like a native after working at the factory in Chapter 5?

2. What does the narrator describe growing along the edge of the fence by the vegetable garden in Chapter 1?

3. By what mode of transportation do the narrator and the millionaire arrive in Paris in Chapter 9?

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

5. Whose love from the opera Faust does the narrator describe as a mockery in Chapter 9?

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