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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What character in the book is killed at the end of Chapter 8?
(a) The Texan.
(b) The Widow.
(c) The Jew.
(d) The Millionaire.

3. What is a term used by the narrator to refer to a person who is born from one white parent and one black parent?
(a) Sicilian.
(b) Mulatto.
(c) Latino.
(d) Kiwi.

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

5. What does the narrator say he has never been good at because his “ideas of interpretation were always too strongly individual”?
(a) Interpreting the Bible.
(b) Running a business.
(c) Composing music.
(d) An accompanist.

Short Answer 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?

2. The millionaire offers to take the narrator to Europe with him instead of taking whom in Chapter 9?

3. What does the narrator claim the men gambling in the dice room are wearing in Chapter 6?

4. How much money does the narrator lose on his second trip to the gambling house in Chapter 8?

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

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