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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word from Chapter 7 means a frequent visitor to a place?
(a) Guest.
(b) Commoner.
(c) Habitué.
(d) Truant.

2. The millionaire offers to take the narrator to Europe with him instead of taking whom in Chapter 9?
(a) Joel Chandler Harris.
(b) Shiny.
(c) Red Head.
(d) Walter.

3. The husband of the woman who runs the boarding house is from where in Chapter 5?
(a) Mexico.
(b) Cuba.
(c) Haiti.
(d) Ecuador.

4. How old does the narrator say he was when he “appeared on a program with a number of adults at an entertainment given for some charitable purpose, and carried off the honors” in Chapter 2?
(a) 17.
(b) 14.
(c) 8.
(d) 12.

5. 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) 2-3 days.
(c) 3-4 days.
(d) 1-2 days.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose love from the opera Faust does the narrator describe as a mockery in Chapter 9?

2. What city does the narrator compare to “a beauty spot on the face of the earth” in Chapter 9?

3. Why is the narrator returning to New York in the beginning of Chapter 6?

4. The narrator states that he is finally able to shake off his gloom when the ship reaches what harbor in Chapter 9?

5. 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?

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