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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With what does the narrator describe having been allowed to play by the tall man with the small, dark moustache in Chapter 1?
(a) A puppy.
(b) A gold pocket watch.
(c) A croquet set.
(d) A 100-year-old sword.

2. How old is the narrator when his mother decides to enter him into public school?
(a) 9.
(b) 5.
(c) 11.
(d) 15.

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

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

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?
(a) “An animal.”
(b) “Society.”
(c) “A slave.”
(d) “A coloured man.”

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What habit does the narrator say he picked up on very young that “makes the piano a sympathetic, singing instrument” in Chapter 2?

3. The narrator claims in Chapter 1, “As I look back now I can see that I was a perfect little” what?

4. What does the tall man with the small, dark moustache drill a hole through in Chapter 1 as the narrator watches?

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

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