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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the Pullman car porter wearing when the narrator encounters him at a ball in Chapter 5?
(a) The narrator’s jacket.
(b) The narrator’s shoes.
(c) The narrator’s hat.
(d) The narrator’s tie.

2. How does the narrator describe the chairs in the parlor at the rooming house where he arrives in the beginning of Chapter 5?
(a) Falling into disrepair.
(b) Made of sturdy oak.
(c) A vibrant red color.
(d) Cane-bottomed.

3. The narrator says in Chapter 5 that he picked up the cigar-maker’s habit of riding around in what on Sunday afternoons?
(a) A horse cart.
(b) A hack.
(c) A canoe.
(d) A sailboat.

4. What is the nickname of the fourteen-year-old boy that the narrator befriends in Chapter 1?
(a) Red Head.
(b) Black hair.
(c) Green eyes.
(d) Blue foot.

5. The landlady and her husband at the boarding house tell the narrator that the big winter hotels would not open within how much time in the beginning of Chapter 5?
(a) 1 year.
(b) 9 months.
(c) 2 months.
(d) 3 weeks.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator says in Chapter 1 that he feels “a sort of diabolical desire to gather up all the little tragedies” of his life and turn them into what?

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

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

4. What present does the narrator describe receiving from his father in Chapter 3?

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

(see the answer key)

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