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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what educational institution is the narrator headed in the beginning of Chapter 4?
(a) Boston University.
(b) Dallas University.
(c) Atlanta University.
(d) New York University.

2. The narrator claims in Chapter 8 that his section of New York is limited to how many blocks?
(a) 25.
(b) 42.
(c) 10.
(d) 4.

3. According to the narrator in Chapter 9, “A French child with a vocabulary of two hundred words can express more spoken ideas than a student of French can with a knowledge of” how many?
(a) 4,500.
(b) 10,000.
(c) 250.
(d) 2,000.

4. Who shows the narrator to a boarding house in the beginning of Chapter 5?
(a) A butcher.
(b) A minister.
(c) A judge.
(d) A policeman.

5. The narrator says in Chapter 4, “I have since learned that this ability to laugh heartily is, in part, the salvation of the American Negro; it does much to keep him from going the way of the” what?
(a) “Devil.”
(b) “Animals.”
(c) “White man.”
(d) “Indian.”

Short Answer Questions

1. What animal does the narrator look for on the iceberg in Chapter 9?

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

3. When was Frederick Douglass born?

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

5. By what mode of transportation do the narrator and the millionaire arrive in Paris in Chapter 9?

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