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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. It is the narrator’s duty to bring what to the tall man with the small, dark moustache when he visits in Chapter 1?
(a) Newspaper.
(b) Slices of bread with butter.
(c) Slippers.
(d) A glass of water.

2. The narrator’s mother supported herself and her son by what means, according to the narrator in Chapter 1?
(a) Growing vegetables.
(b) Sewing.
(c) Tutoring students.
(d) Giving violin lessons.

3. What does the narrator say he has never been good at because his “ideas of interpretation were always too strongly individual”?
(a) Interpreting the Bible.
(b) Running a business.
(c) Composing music.
(d) An accompanist.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. To whom does the narrator say he became inseparable in school in Chapter 2?

3. According to the narrator in Chapter 2, the two immediate results of his “forced loneliness” were finding company in books and greater pleasure in what?

4. How old is the narrator when his mother decides to enter him into public school?

5. What does the narrator describe surrounding the flowers in the front yard of his childhood home in Chapter 1?

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