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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 does the narrator say he had a particular fondness for in his childhood in Chapter 1?
(a) White keys.
(b) Slidebars.
(c) Black keys.
(d) Pedals.

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?
(a) Blue Eyes.
(b) Shiny.
(c) Onyx.
(d) Red head.

3. How does the narrator say he changed his attitudes toward his peers after the discovery that he was biracial?
(a) He became more judgmental.
(b) He became more sympathetic.
(c) He became more outspoken.
(d) He became more reserved.

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

5. Whose schoolwork did the narrator largely complete for him, as described in Chapter 2?
(a) Walter's.
(b) The Girl's.
(c) Shiny's.
(d) Red Head’s.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator of the novel was born in a small town in what state?

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

3. What present does the narrator describe receiving from his father in Chapter 3?

4. On what day of the week does the narrator’s mother play the piano in Chapter 1?

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

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