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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator say he changed his attitudes toward his peers after the discovery that he was biracial?
(a) He became more outspoken.
(b) He became more reserved.
(c) He became more judgmental.
(d) He became more sympathetic.

2. The landlord of the boarding house in Chapter 5 makes approximately how many cigars per day?
(a) 140.
(b) 220.
(c) 100.
(d) 60.

3. What term from Chapter 5 refers to a government led by a committee of military leaders?
(a) Junta.
(b) Revolution.
(c) Utopia.
(d) Tribunal.

4. Within how much time is the narrator able to speak Spanish like a native after working at the factory in Chapter 5?
(a) 1 year.
(b) 2 years.
(c) 9 moths.
(d) 6 months.

5. The narrator states in Chapter 2 that “a true artist can no more play upon the piano or violin without putting his whole body in accord with the emotions he is striving to express than a swallow can” do what?
(a) “Eat without being vulnerable.”
(b) “Fly without being graceful.”
(c) “Sing without being loud.”
(d) “Sing without melody.”

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator describe surrounding the flowers in the front yard of his childhood home in Chapter 1?

2. What habit does the narrator say he picked up on very young that “makes the piano a sympathetic, singing instrument” in Chapter 2?

3. 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?

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

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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