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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 Hotel Continental.
(b) The Champs Elysees.
(c) The Grand Opra.
(d) The Grand Boulevards.

2. It is the narrator’s duty to bring what to the tall man with the small, dark moustache when he visits in Chapter 1?
(a) A glass of water.
(b) Slices of bread with butter.
(c) Newspaper.
(d) Slippers.

3. 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?
(a) Hominy.
(b) Crawfish.
(c) Chitlins.
(d) Collard greens.

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

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?
(a) The Episcopal Prayer-book.
(b) The Bible.
(c) The Korah.
(d) The Torah.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. The narrator states in Chapter 2 of his mother that he did not remember “ever having seen her with a book in her hand, with the exception of” what?

5. To whom does the narrator claim to have developed a “sympathetic bond” with at school in Chapter 2?

(see the answer key)

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