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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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 doctor telling his patient he’ll die.”
(c) “A blind rat.”
(d) “The unfound-out criminal.”

4. What does the tall man with the small, dark moustache drill a hole through in Chapter 1 as the narrator watches?
(a) A two-dollar silver piece.
(b) A ten-dollar gold piece.
(c) A five-dollar silver piece.
(d) A five-dollar gold piece.

5. 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?
(a) 9 months.
(b) 2 months.
(c) 1 year.
(d) 3 weeks.

Short Answer Questions

1. What book does the narrator describe as having “used to lie in splendid neglect on the center table in our little parlor” in Chapter 2?

2. Who does the narrator say stood at the head of his list of heroes for a long time in Chapter 2?

3. Whom does the narrator describe as “a bright young fellow who was himself a student” that he talks with on the train ride in Chapter 4?

4. How old is the narrator when his mother decides to enter him into public school?

5. Who wrote the Christian allegory The Pilgrim's Progress from This World to That Which Is to Come?

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