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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do the narrator and the millionaire walk and sit in chairs along the sidewalk in Chapter 9?
(a) The Champs Elysees.
(b) The Grand Boulevards.
(c) The Grand Opra.
(d) The Hotel Continental.

2. Where does the narrator move with his mother in Chapter 1?
(a) Connecticut.
(b) Ohio.
(c) Georgia.
(d) Main.

3. 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) The meet an old friend.
(d) A relative has just died.

4. 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) “Animals.”
(b) “White man.”
(c) “Indian.”
(d) “Devil.”

5. What nickname does the narrator give to the boy in his class whose face he describes as “black as night, but shone as though it was polished” in Chapter 1?
(a) Shiny.
(b) Onyx.
(c) Blue Eyes.
(d) Red head.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose schoolwork did the narrator largely complete for him, as described in Chapter 2?

2. The narrator of the novel was born a few years after the close of what war?

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

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

5. On what day of the week does the narrator’s mother play the piano in Chapter 1?

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