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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote the Christian allegory The Pilgrim's Progress from This World to That Which Is to Come?
(a) Jacob Smith.
(b) Elliot Larkin.
(c) John Bunyan.
(d) Mason Williams.

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

3. 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?
(a) 12.
(b) 17.
(c) 14.
(d) 8.

4. What does the narrator describe growing along the edge of the fence by the vegetable garden in Chapter 1?
(a) Potatoes.
(b) Blackberries.
(c) Huckleberries.
(d) Tomatoes.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

3. The narrator states in Chapter 2, “In the life of every one there is a limited number of unhappy experiences which are not written upon the memory, but stamped there with” what?

4. 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?

5. What nickname does the narrator give to the boy in his class whose face he describes as “black as night, but shone as though it was polished” in Chapter 1?

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