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

2. The narrator says in Chapter 5 that he picked up the cigar-maker’s habit of riding around in what on Sunday afternoons?
(a) A hack.
(b) A sailboat.
(c) A horse cart.
(d) A canoe.

3. 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) Blue Eyes.
(b) Onyx.
(c) Shiny.
(d) Red head.

4. The narrator of the novel was born a few years after the close of what war?
(a) World War II.
(b) The War of 1812.
(c) World War I.
(d) The Civil War.

5. How does the narrator say he changed his attitudes toward his peers after the discovery that he was biracial?
(a) He became more reserved.
(b) He became more outspoken.
(c) He became more judgmental.
(d) He became more sympathetic.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the man that the narrator befriends on the ship ask him to stop for two or three days in Chapter 10?

2. 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?

3. Where is the narrator headed by ship in the beginning of Chapter 10?

4. According to the author in Chapter 10, “Southerners are very much like” who “in that they must talk”?

5. Who wrote the Christian allegory The Pilgrim's Progress from This World to That Which Is to Come?

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