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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote the Christian allegory The Pilgrim's Progress from This World to That Which Is to Come?
(a) John Bunyan.
(b) Mason Williams.
(c) Elliot Larkin.
(d) Jacob Smith.

2. According to the narrator in Chapter 9, “The Londoner seems to think that Americans are people whose only claim to be classed as civilized is that they have” what?
(a) Morals.
(b) Religion.
(c) Money.
(d) Intelligence.

3. According to the narrator, who claim made the Jubilee songs public?
(a) The Millionaire.
(b) Red Head.
(c) The Fisk singers.
(d) Shiny.

4. In Chapter 1, the narrator states that he is led to reveal his secret by the same impulse as what?
(a) “A blind rat.”
(b) “The doctor telling his patient he’ll die.”
(c) “A nun lost in the woods.”
(d) “The unfound-out criminal.”

5. What does the narrator say he had a particular fondness for in his childhood in Chapter 1?
(a) Black keys.
(b) Pedals.
(c) Slidebars.
(d) White keys.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. 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?

3. 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?

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

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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