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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much money per week is the room that the narrator rents at the boarding house in the beginning of Chapter 5?
(a) $5.75.
(b) $2.00.
(c) $7.95.
(d) $3.50.

2. What does the narrator say he had a particular fondness for in his childhood in Chapter 1?
(a) Slidebars.
(b) Black keys.
(c) Pedals.
(d) White keys.

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) 12.
(c) 14.
(d) 8.

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

5. 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?
(a) Shiny.
(b) Blue Eyes.
(c) Onyx.
(d) Red head.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator states in Chapter 5, “I am sure it would be safe to wager that no group of Southern white men could get together and talk for sixty minutes without bringing up” what?

2. All of the fellow boarders at the boarding house where the narrator stays in Chapter 5 work as what?

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

4. With what does the narrator describe having been allowed to play by the tall man with the small, dark moustache in Chapter 1?

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

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