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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the Pullman car porter wearing when the narrator encounters him at a ball in Chapter 5?
(a) The narrator’s jacket.
(b) The narrator’s hat.
(c) The narrator’s tie.
(d) The narrator’s shoes.

2. The narrator is earning how much money per week after working at the cigar factory for three months in Chapter 5?
(a) $2.
(b) $10.
(c) $4.
(d) $7.

3. The narrator states in Chapter 2, “And this is the dwarfing, warping, distorting influence which operates upon each colored man in the United States. He is forced to take his outlook on all things, not from the viewpoint of a citizen, or a man, nor even a human being, but from the viewpoint of” what?
(a) “A coloured man.”
(b) “Society.”
(c) “A slave.”
(d) “An animal.”

4. The narrator claims in Chapter 1, “As I look back now I can see that I was a perfect little” what?
(a) Aristocrat.
(b) Engineer.
(c) Patsy.
(d) Citizen.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator describe growing along the edge of the fence by the vegetable garden in Chapter 1?

2. Within how much time is the narrator accounted the fastest at pulling the long stems from tobacco leaves at the factory in Chapter 5?

3. Whose schoolwork did the narrator largely complete for him, as described in Chapter 2?

4. Who wrote the Christian allegory The Pilgrim's Progress from This World to That Which Is to Come?

5. What does the narrator have for breakfast that is described as “boiled to the consistency where it could be eaten with a fork” in Chapter 4?

(see the answer key)

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