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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. All of the fellow boarders at the boarding house where the narrator stays in Chapter 5 work as what?
(a) Blacksmiths.
(b) Cigar makers.
(c) Basket weavers.
(d) Farmhands.

2. 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) The race question.
(b) The weather.
(c) Women.
(d) Their children.

3. The narrator describes the poker players as practicing what sort of politeness for each other in Chapter 6?
(a) Chesterfieldian.
(b) Orwellian.
(c) Aristotelian.
(d) Platonic.

4. How much money does the narrator say he has in his possession after their night at the “Club” in Chapter 8?
(a) $125.
(b) $5.
(c) $300.
(d) $65.

5. The narrator compares New York City to a great _________ at the gate of the country in Chapter 6?
(a) Serpent.
(b) Witch.
(c) Troll.
(d) Devil.

Short Answer Questions

1. The millionaire offers to take the narrator to Europe with him instead of taking whom in Chapter 9?

2. Where is the “tall, rawboned, red-faced man” from that the narrator encounters on the train in Chapter 10?

3. The narrator states in Chapter 9 that he has become quite friendly with a “stolid, slow-witted fellow” from where?

4. How long do the narrator and the millionaire stay in Paris in Chapter 9?

5. What food does the narrator describe as having the power of absorbing alcoholic liquors that have been taken into the stomach in Chapter 7?

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