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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator’s companion tells him in Chapter 4 that all of the “respectable coloured people” eat where?
(a) At the diner.
(b) At the race track.
(c) At the church.
(d) At home.

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

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 Episcopal Prayer-book.
(c) The Korah.
(d) The Bible.

4. Who wrote the Christian allegory The Pilgrim's Progress from This World to That Which Is to Come?
(a) Elliot Larkin.
(b) Mason Williams.
(c) Jacob Smith.
(d) John Bunyan.

5. Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
(a) Mark Twain.
(b) Frederick Douglass.
(c) Louisa May Alcott.
(d) Harriet Beecher Stowe.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How much money does the narrator put in his trunk while his fellow roommates sleep in Chapter 4?

3. To what educational institution is the narrator headed in the beginning of Chapter 4?

4. How much do the narrator and his companion each pay the waiter at the restaurant where they eat in Chapter 4?

5. It is the narrator’s duty to bring what to the tall man with the small, dark moustache when he visits in Chapter 1?

(see the answer key)

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