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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By what mode of transportation do the narrator and the millionaire arrive in Paris in Chapter 9?
(a) Boat.
(b) Plane.
(c) Train.
(d) Automobile.

2. The narrator’s harrowed state of mind and seasickness keeps him miserable on the ship for how long before it begins to lift in Chapter 9?
(a) 4-5 days.
(b) 1-2 days.
(c) 3-4 days.
(d) 2-3 days.

3. When was Frederick Douglass born?
(a) 1818.
(b) 1884.
(c) 1879.
(d) 1833.

4. The narrator says in Chapter 5 that he picked up the cigar-maker’s habit of riding around in what on Sunday afternoons?
(a) A sailboat.
(b) A canoe.
(c) A hack.
(d) A horse cart.

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 shoes.
(c) The narrator’s jacket.
(d) The narrator’s hat.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. To what educational institution is the narrator headed in the beginning of Chapter 4?

4. 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?

5. The landlord of the boarding house in Chapter 5 makes approximately how many cigars per day?

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