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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 habit does the narrator say he picked up on very young that “makes the piano a sympathetic, singing instrument” in Chapter 2?
(a) Playing with his eyes closed.
(b) Playing the black keys.
(c) Playing the wrong notes.
(d) Using the pedals.

2. What does the narrator describe under the shed in the backyard of his childhood home in Chapter 1?
(a) Shovel and plow.
(b) Animal feed.
(c) Wooden wash-tubs.
(d) Bicycles.

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?
(a) Silence.
(b) Thought.
(c) Music.
(d) Nature.

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

5. 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) 14.
(c) 17.
(d) 8.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator’s mother supported herself and her son by what means, according to the narrator in Chapter 1?

2. 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?

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

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

5. What does the narrator describe growing along the edge of the fence by the vegetable garden in Chapter 1?

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