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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is in the basement of the “Club” that the narrator goes to with his companions in Chapter 6?
(a) A butcher shop.
(b) A Chinese Chop-suey restaurant.
(c) Hundreds of boxes.
(d) A brothel.

2. The narrator of the novel was born in a small town in what state?
(a) Georgia.
(b) New Mexico.
(c) Minnesota.
(d) Kansas.

3. 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.

4. In describing New York, the narrator states, “To some natures this stimulant of life in a great city becomes a thing as binding and necessary as” being addicted to what substance?
(a) Opium.
(b) Marijuana.
(c) Tobacco.
(d) Whiskey.

5. The narrator states in Chapter 2, “In the life of every one there is a limited number of unhappy experiences which are not written upon the memory, but stamped there with” what?
(a) “Vivid detail.”
(b) “A die.”
(c) “Bad memories.”
(d) “Extreme pressure.”

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. 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?

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

4. What is a term used by the narrator to refer to a person who is born from one white parent and one black parent?

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

(see the answer key)

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