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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the tall man with the small, dark moustache drill a hole through in Chapter 1 as the narrator watches?
(a) A five-dollar silver piece.
(b) A ten-dollar gold piece.
(c) A five-dollar gold piece.
(d) A two-dollar silver piece.

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

4. The narrator says in Chapter 1 that he feels “a sort of diabolical desire to gather up all the little tragedies” of his life and turn them into what?
(a) “Anecdotes on nature’s whimsy.”
(b) “Fairy tales for the forgotten.”
(c) “A practical joke on society.”
(d) “Double rainbows.”

5. The narrator states in Chapter 2 of his mother that he did not remember “ever having seen her with a book in her hand, with the exception of” what?
(a) The Bible.
(b) The Torah.
(c) The Koran.
(d) The Episcopal Prayer-book.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator states in Chapter 2 that “a true artist can no more play upon the piano or violin without putting his whole body in accord with the emotions he is striving to express than a swallow can” do what?

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

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

4. How old is the narrator when his mother decides to enter him into public school?

5. 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?

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