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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what educational institution is the narrator headed in the beginning of Chapter 4?
(a) Atlanta University.
(b) Boston University.
(c) New York University.
(d) Dallas University.

2. What is the Pullman car porter wearing when the narrator encounters him at a ball in Chapter 5?
(a) The narrator’s jacket.
(b) The narrator’s shoes.
(c) The narrator’s hat.
(d) The narrator’s tie.

3. 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?
(a) 17.
(b) 14.
(c) 12.
(d) 8.

4. The landlord of the boarding house in Chapter 5 makes approximately how many cigars per day?
(a) 220.
(b) 100.
(c) 60.
(d) 140.

5. 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?
(a) The Torah.
(b) The Bible.
(c) The Episcopal Prayer-book.
(d) The Koran.

Short Answer Questions

1. Approximately how much money does the landlord at the boarding house earn per week, according to the narrator in Chapter 5?

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

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

4. The husband of the woman who runs the boarding house is from where in Chapter 5?

5. Within how much time is the narrator accounted the fastest at pulling the long stems from tobacco leaves at the factory in Chapter 5?

(see the answer key)

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