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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 says that when he was shown about the grounds of the university, he was especially interested in what building in Chapter 4?
(a) The library.
(b) The mathematics building.
(c) The gymnasium.
(d) The industrial building.

2. What does the narrator say he has never been good at because his “ideas of interpretation were always too strongly individual”?
(a) Running a business.
(b) Interpreting the Bible.
(c) An accompanist.
(d) Composing music.

3. 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) “Double rainbows.”
(c) “Fairy tales for the forgotten.”
(d) “A practical joke on society.”

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

5. What habit does the narrator say he picked up on very young that “makes the piano a sympathetic, singing instrument” in Chapter 2?
(a) Using the pedals.
(b) Playing the black keys.
(c) Playing with his eyes closed.
(d) Playing the wrong notes.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator claims in Chapter 1, “As I look back now I can see that I was a perfect little” what?

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. How many students does the narrator say are at the university in Chapter 4?

4. 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?

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

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