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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What is the nickname of the fourteen-year-old boy that the narrator befriends in Chapter 1?
(a) Red Head.
(b) Black hair.
(c) Green eyes.
(d) Blue foot.

5. The narrator says in Chapter 5 that he picked up the cigar-maker’s habit of riding around in what on Sunday afternoons?
(a) A horse cart.
(b) A canoe.
(c) A sailboat.
(d) A hack.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

3. The landlord of the boarding house in Chapter 5 makes approximately how many cigars per day?

4. The narrator says in Chapter 4, “I have since learned that this ability to laugh heartily is, in part, the salvation of the American Negro; it does much to keep him from going the way of the” what?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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