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

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

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

4. 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 gold pocket watch.
(b) A puppy.
(c) A croquet set.
(d) A 100-year-old sword.

5. In Chapter 1, the narrator states that he is led to reveal his secret by the same impulse as what?
(a) “A blind rat.”
(b) “A nun lost in the woods.”
(c) “The unfound-out criminal.”
(d) “The doctor telling his patient he’ll die.”

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. 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?

3. Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

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

5. To whom does the narrator claim to have developed a “sympathetic bond” with at school in Chapter 2?

(see the answer key)

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