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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1-3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator describe surrounding the flowers in the front yard of his childhood home in Chapter 1?
(a) A white picket fence.
(b) Glass bottles.
(c) Cherry trees.
(d) Large rocks.

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

3. What does the tall man with the small, dark moustache drill a hole through in Chapter 1 as the narrator watches?
(a) A five-dollar silver piece.
(b) A ten-dollar gold piece.
(c) A five-dollar gold piece.
(d) A two-dollar silver piece.

4. Who does the narrator say stood at the head of his list of heroes for a long time in Chapter 2?
(a) Christopher Columbus.
(b) Charles Darwin.
(c) Jesus.
(d) King David.

5. 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?
(a) “Sing without being loud.”
(b) “Eat without being vulnerable.”
(c) “Sing without melody.”
(d) “Fly without being graceful.”

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. In Chapter 1, the narrator states that he is led to reveal his secret by the same impulse as what?

3. What does the narrator describe under the shed in the backyard of his childhood home in Chapter 1?

4. What does the narrator say he has never been good at because his “ideas of interpretation were always too strongly individual”?

5. What does the narrator say he had a particular fondness for in his childhood in Chapter 1?

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