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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does the narrator describe the chairs in the parlor at the rooming house where he arrives in the beginning of Chapter 5?
(a) Made of sturdy oak.
(b) Cane-bottomed.
(c) A vibrant red color.
(d) Falling into disrepair.

3. 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.

4. 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) 10 days.
(b) 1 month.
(c) 4 days.
(d) 2 weeks.

5. The narrator of the novel was born in a small town in what state?
(a) New Mexico.
(b) Minnesota.
(c) Georgia.
(d) Kansas.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the narrator have for breakfast that is described as “so light and flaky that a fellow with any appetite at all would have no difficulty in disposing of eight or ten” in Chapter 4?

3. The narrator is earning how much money per week after working at the cigar factory for three months in Chapter 5?

4. 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?

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?

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