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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator says that when he was shown about the grounds of the university, he was especially interested in what building in Chapter 4?
(a) The industrial building.
(b) The library.
(c) The gymnasium.
(d) The mathematics building.

2. What does the tall man with the small, dark moustache drill a hole through in Chapter 1 as the narrator watches?
(a) A five-dollar gold piece.
(b) A ten-dollar gold piece.
(c) A two-dollar silver piece.
(d) A five-dollar silver piece.

3. Where does the narrator move with his mother in Chapter 1?
(a) Georgia.
(b) Ohio.
(c) Main.
(d) Connecticut.

4. The narrator of the novel was born a few years after the close of what war?
(a) The Civil War.
(b) World War I.
(c) The War of 1812.
(d) World War II.

5. The narrator states in Chapter 5, “I am sure it would be safe to wager that no group of Southern white men could get together and talk for sixty minutes without bringing up” what?
(a) Women.
(b) The weather.
(c) Their children.
(d) The race question.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what does the narrator describe having been allowed to play by the tall man with the small, dark moustache in Chapter 1?

2. What present does the narrator describe receiving from his father in Chapter 3?

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

4. 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?

5. The narrator’s companion tells him in Chapter 4 that all of the “respectable coloured people” eat where?

(see the answer key)

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