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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much money does the narrator put in his trunk while his fellow roommates sleep in Chapter 4?
(a) $1,000.
(b) $100.
(c) $300.
(d) $500.

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

3. 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?
(a) The Torah.
(b) The Korah.
(c) The Bible.
(d) The Episcopal Prayer-book.

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

5. By what age could the narrator play by ear all of the hymns and songs his mother knew?
(a) 15.
(b) 12.
(c) 4.
(d) 7.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

3. What is stolen along with the narrator’s money from his trunk in Chapter 4?

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

5. What does the narrator say he had a particular fondness for in his childhood in Chapter 1?

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