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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator say he has never been good at because his “ideas of interpretation were always too strongly individual”?
(a) Interpreting the Bible.
(b) Composing music.
(c) An accompanist.
(d) Running a business.

2. Who was the author of The Souls of Black Folk?
(a) Langston Hughes.
(b) Frederick Douglass.
(c) Zora Neale Hurston.
(d) W. E. B. Du Bois.

3. With what does the narrator describe having been allowed to play by the tall man with the small, dark moustache in Chapter 1?
(a) A puppy.
(b) A 100-year-old sword.
(c) A croquet set.
(d) A gold pocket watch.

4. What is the profession of the “fat Jewish looking man” that the narrator encounters on the train in Chapter 10?
(a) Farmer.
(b) Banker.
(c) Shop owner.
(d) Cigar manufacturer.

5. Where does the narrator go after leaving Nashville in Chapter 10?
(a) Atlanta.
(b) Richmond.
(c) New York City.
(d) Denver.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator describes the poker players as practicing what sort of politeness for each other in Chapter 6?

2. How much money does the narrator say that the most popular African American jockey of the day earns per year in Chapter 7?

3. Where does the narrator move with his mother in Chapter 1?

4. How old does the narrator say he was when he “appeared on a program with a number of adults at an entertainment given for some charitable purpose, and carried off the honors” in Chapter 2?

5. What city does the narrator describe as “a big, dull, red town” in Chapter 4?

(see the answer key)

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