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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How does the narrator say he changed his attitudes toward his peers after the discovery that he was biracial?
(a) He became more reserved.
(b) He became more outspoken.
(c) He became more sympathetic.
(d) He became more judgmental.

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

5. Why is the narrator returning to New York in the beginning of Chapter 6?
(a) The cigar factory shut down.
(b) The World's Fair.
(c) A relative has just died.
(d) The meet an old friend.

Short Answer Questions

1. All of the fellow boarders at the boarding house where the narrator stays in Chapter 5 work as what?

2. The narrator compares New York City to a great _________ at the gate of the country in Chapter 6?

3. How does the narrator describe the chairs in the parlor at the rooming house where he arrives in the beginning of Chapter 5?

4. The narrator says in Chapter 5 that he picked up the cigar-maker’s habit of riding around in what on Sunday afternoons?

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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