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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) “A practical joke on society.”
(b) “Double rainbows.”
(c) “Fairy tales for the forgotten.”
(d) “Anecdotes on nature’s whimsy.”

2. How long do the narrator and the millionaire stay in Paris in Chapter 9?
(a) 27-28 weeks.
(b) 14-15 months.
(c) 6-7 days.
(d) 2-3 days.

3. To what does the narrator compare a massive iceberg viewed from the ship in Chapter 9?
(a) An opal.
(b) A mesa.
(c) A mountain.
(d) A diamond.

4. The narrator states in the beginning of Chapter 4 that the farther he got below __________, the more disappointed he became with the appearance of the country?
(a) Chicago.
(b) New York City.
(c) St. Louis.
(d) Washington, D.C.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator states in Chapter 4 that he stood for an hour watching four or five men saving what by the road?

2. Where does the narrator describe spending many evenings and where “music there made [him] strangely reminiscent of my life in Connecticut” in Chapter 9?

3. How old is the narrator when his mother decides to enter him into public school?

4. What city does the narrator describe as “a big, dull, red town” in Chapter 4?

5. 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?

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