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

2. The narrator of the novel was born in a small town in what state?
(a) Kansas.
(b) Minnesota.
(c) New Mexico.
(d) Georgia.

3. What is the nickname of the fourteen-year-old boy that the narrator befriends in Chapter 1?
(a) Black hair.
(b) Red Head.
(c) Green eyes.
(d) Blue foot.

4. 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.

5. The narrator claims in Chapter 1, “As I look back now I can see that I was a perfect little” what?
(a) Citizen.
(b) Patsy.
(c) Aristocrat.
(d) Engineer.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

3. With what does the narrator describe having been allowed to play by the tall man with the small, dark moustache in Chapter 1?

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. 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?

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