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

2. Whom does the narrator describe as “a bright young fellow who was himself a student” that he talks with on the train ride in Chapter 4?
(a) A Pullman car porter.
(b) A breeder.
(c) A shoe shiner.
(d) A horse breeder.

3. The narrator states in Chapter 2 of his mother that he did not remember “ever having seen her with a book in her hand, with the exception of” what?
(a) The Torah.
(b) The Koran.
(c) The Bible.
(d) The Episcopal Prayer-book.

4. How old is the narrator when his mother decides to enter him into public school?
(a) 9.
(b) 5.
(c) 11.
(d) 15.

5. Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
(a) Mark Twain.
(b) Louisa May Alcott.
(c) Harriet Beecher Stowe.
(d) Frederick Douglass.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what day of the week does the narrator’s mother play the piano in Chapter 1?

2. What is the nickname of the fourteen-year-old boy that the narrator befriends in Chapter 1?

3. How much money per week does the narrator earn as the “reader” at the cigar factory in Chapter 5?

4. What book does the narrator describe as having “used to lie in splendid neglect on the center table in our little parlor” in Chapter 2?

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?

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