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

Multiple Choice 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?
(a) Waffles.
(b) Blueberry muffins.
(c) Pancakes.
(d) Biscuits.

2. What term from the book refers to “the boys who pulled the long stems from the tobacco leaves”?
(a) Stemmers.
(b) Gougers.
(c) Strippers.
(d) Rippers.

3. Whose schoolwork did the narrator largely complete for him, as described in Chapter 2?
(a) The Girl's.
(b) Walter's.
(c) Red Head’s.
(d) Shiny's.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What does the narrator describe under the shed in the backyard of his childhood home in Chapter 1?

3. How much do the narrator and his companion each pay the waiter at the restaurant where they eat in Chapter 4?

4. What does the narrator say he has never been good at because his “ideas of interpretation were always too strongly individual”?

5. Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

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