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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator describe under the shed in the backyard of his childhood home in Chapter 1?
(a) Wooden wash-tubs.
(b) Bicycles.
(c) Animal feed.
(d) Shovel and plow.

2. By what mode of transportation do the narrator and the millionaire arrive in Paris in Chapter 9?
(a) Automobile.
(b) Plane.
(c) Train.
(d) Boat.

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

4. How many words does the narrator compile a list of in French as being “necessary” in Chapter 9?
(a) 180.
(b) 575.
(c) 65.
(d) 300.

5. What does the Texan take out and drink during the racial discussion in the train car in Chapter 10?
(a) Coffee.
(b) Water.
(c) Milk.
(d) Whiskey.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator say he changed his attitudes toward his peers after the discovery that he was biracial?

2. The narrator states in Chapter 10, “It is the spirit of the South to defend everything belonging to it. The North is too” what “for such a spirit”?

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

4. The landlady and her husband at the boarding house tell the narrator that the big winter hotels would not open within how much time in the beginning of Chapter 5?

5. At what institution does the narrator spend a day in Nashville in Chapter 10?

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