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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many students does the narrator say are at the university in Chapter 4?
(a) 300-400.
(b) 1,200-1,500.
(c) 600-800.
(d) 200-250.

2. What is stolen along with the narrator’s money from his trunk in Chapter 4?
(a) A pair of shoes.
(b) A necktie.
(c) A jacket.
(d) A hat.

3. The narrator of the novel was born in a small town in what state?
(a) Kansas.
(b) Georgia.
(c) New Mexico.
(d) Minnesota.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator have for breakfast that is described as “so light and flaky that a fellow with any appetite at all would have no difficulty in disposing of eight or ten” in Chapter 4?

2. 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?

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

4. 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?

5. The narrator of the novel was born a few years after the close of what war?

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