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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator states in Chapter 2, “And this is the dwarfing, warping, distorting influence which operates upon each colored man in the United States. He is forced to take his outlook on all things, not from the viewpoint of a citizen, or a man, nor even a human being, but from the viewpoint of” what?
(a) “A coloured man.”
(b) “A slave.”
(c) “An animal.”
(d) “Society.”

2. What present does the narrator describe receiving from his father in Chapter 3?
(a) A watch.
(b) A fishing rod.
(c) A bicycle.
(d) A piano.

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

4. Whose schoolwork did the narrator largely complete for him, as described in Chapter 2?
(a) Red Head’s.
(b) The Girl's.
(c) Walter's.
(d) Shiny's.

5. To whom does the narrator say he became inseparable in school in Chapter 2?
(a) Joel Chandler Harris.
(b) The Girl.
(c) Shiny.
(d) Red Head.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote the Christian allegory The Pilgrim's Progress from This World to That Which Is to Come?

2. Where does the narrator move with his mother in Chapter 1?

3. What is the nickname of the fourteen-year-old boy that the narrator befriends in Chapter 1?

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

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

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