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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 have for breakfast that is described as “boiled to the consistency where it could be eaten with a fork” in Chapter 4?
(a) Chitlins.
(b) Collard greens.
(c) Crawfish.
(d) Hominy.

2. Where do the narrator and four of his companions go to seek a lodging-house after arriving in New York in Chapter 6?
(a) 6th Street and Ninth Avenue.
(b) 27th Street and Sixth Avenue.
(c) 37th Street and First Avenue.
(d) 64th Street and Thirteenth Avenue.

3. What term is used by some historians to designate the Germanic tribes who invaded and settled the south and east of Britain beginning in the early 5th century?
(a) Caucasian.
(b) Arabian.
(c) Anglo-Saxon.
(d) Latino.

4. During his stay in Paris, the narrator usually goes to the theater and ends up at the big café located where in Chapter 9?
(a) The Grand Opera.
(b) The Grand Boulevards.
(c) The Hotel Continental.
(d) The Champs Elysees.

5. What word from Chapter 7 means a frequent visitor to a place?
(a) Guest.
(b) Truant.
(c) Commoner.
(d) Habitué.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator of the novel was born a few years after the close of what war?

2. 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?

3. On what day of the week does the narrator’s mother play the piano in Chapter 1?

4. 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?

5. Within how much time is the narrator accounted the fastest at pulling the long stems from tobacco leaves at the factory in Chapter 5?

(see the answer key)

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