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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Music.
(c) Nature.
(d) Thought.

2. The narrator of the novel was born a few years after the close of what war?
(a) World War II.
(b) World War I.
(c) The War of 1812.
(d) The Civil War.

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

4. On what day of the week does the narrator’s mother play the piano in Chapter 1?
(a) Saturday.
(b) Wednesday.
(c) Sunday.
(d) Friday.

5. 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) Slices of bread with butter.
(b) A glass of water.
(c) Slippers.
(d) Newspaper.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What book does the narrator describe as having “used to lie in splendid neglect on the center table in our little parlor” in Chapter 2?

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

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

5. 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?

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