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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The porter tells the narrator that he has not had how many hours of sleep since he left Jersey City in Chapter 4?
(a) 3.
(b) 10.
(c) 12.
(d) 6.

2. What does the narrator describe under the shed in the backyard of his childhood home in Chapter 1?
(a) Shovel and plow.
(b) Wooden wash-tubs.
(c) Bicycles.
(d) Animal feed.

3. What present does the narrator describe receiving from his father in Chapter 3?
(a) A bicycle.
(b) A piano.
(c) A watch.
(d) A fishing rod.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

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

4. To what educational institution is the narrator headed in the beginning of Chapter 4?

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?

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