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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By what age could the narrator play by ear all of the hymns and songs his mother knew?
(a) 7.
(b) 15.
(c) 12.
(d) 4.

2. What does the narrator say he has never been good at because his “ideas of interpretation were always too strongly individual”?
(a) Interpreting the Bible.
(b) Composing music.
(c) An accompanist.
(d) Running a business.

3. How much money does the narrator put in his trunk while his fellow roommates sleep in Chapter 4?
(a) $100.
(b) $500.
(c) $300.
(d) $1,000.

4. In Chapter 5, the narrator compares the black man and his fight to what bearing the “fury of the storm”?
(a) “The redwood tree.”
(b) “The willow tree.”
(c) “The bristlecone pine tree.”
(d) “The cedar tree.”

5. Who shows the narrator to a boarding house in the beginning of Chapter 5?
(a) A minister.
(b) A policeman.
(c) A judge.
(d) A butcher.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator states in the beginning of Chapter 4 that the farther he got below __________, the more disappointed he became with the appearance of the country?

2. How does the narrator describe the chairs in the parlor at the rooming house where he arrives in the beginning of Chapter 5?

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

5. The porter tells the narrator that he has not had how many hours of sleep since he left Jersey City in Chapter 4?

(see the answer key)

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