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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Within how much time is the narrator accounted the fastest at pulling the long stems from tobacco leaves at the factory in Chapter 5?
(a) 2 weeks.
(b) 10 days.
(c) 1 month.
(d) 4 days.

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 Torah.
(c) The Koran.
(d) The Episcopal Prayer-book.

3. What does the narrator describe growing along the edge of the fence by the vegetable garden in Chapter 1?
(a) Potatoes.
(b) Tomatoes.
(c) Blackberries.
(d) Huckleberries.

4. 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?
(a) The Korah.
(b) The Episcopal Prayer-book.
(c) The Torah.
(d) The Bible.

5. The husband of the woman who runs the boarding house is from where in Chapter 5?
(a) Haiti.
(b) Cuba.
(c) Ecuador.
(d) Mexico.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator of the novel was born in a small town in what state?

2. What is stolen along with the narrator’s money from his trunk in Chapter 4?

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

4. How much money per week is the room that the narrator rents at the boarding house in the beginning of Chapter 5?

5. 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?

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