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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) An accompanist.
(b) Interpreting the Bible.
(c) Composing music.
(d) Running a business.

2. Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
(a) Harriet Beecher Stowe.
(b) Louisa May Alcott.
(c) Mark Twain.
(d) Frederick Douglass.

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 gold pocket watch.
(c) A 100-year-old sword.
(d) A croquet set.

4. The narrator claims in Chapter 1, “As I look back now I can see that I was a perfect little” what?
(a) Patsy.
(b) Aristocrat.
(c) Citizen.
(d) Engineer.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. The narrator states in Chapter 2 that “a true artist can no more play upon the piano or violin without putting his whole body in accord with the emotions he is striving to express than a swallow can” do what?

5. During his stay in Paris, the narrator usually goes to the theater and ends up at the big café located where in Chapter 9?

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