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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Approximately how much money does the landlord at the boarding house earn per week, according to the narrator in Chapter 5?
(a) $35-40.
(b) $120-150.
(c) $50-75.
(d) $80-100.

2. All of the fellow boarders at the boarding house where the narrator stays in Chapter 5 work as what?
(a) Basket weavers.
(b) Farmhands.
(c) Blacksmiths.
(d) Cigar makers.

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

4. The narrator of the novel was born a few years after the close of what war?
(a) The Civil War.
(b) World War I.
(c) The War of 1812.
(d) World War II.

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 sailboat.
(c) A hack.
(d) A canoe.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term from the book refers to “the boys who pulled the long stems from the tobacco leaves”?

2. Where does the narrator move with his mother in Chapter 1?

3. The landlady and her husband at the boarding house tell the narrator that the big winter hotels would not open within how much time in the beginning of Chapter 5?

4. 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?

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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