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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) Whiskey.
(c) Milk.
(d) Water.

2. The man that the narrator befriends on the ship in Chapter 10 studied at what university?
(a) The University of Georgia.
(b) Fisk University.
(c) Howard University.
(d) The University of Florida.

3. Whom does the narrator describe as “a bright young fellow who was himself a student” that he talks with on the train ride in Chapter 4?
(a) A shoe shiner.
(b) A Pullman car porter.
(c) A horse breeder.
(d) A breeder.

4. What city does the narrator say “stands for the conservatism, the solidarity, the utilitarianism” in Chapter 9?
(a) Venice.
(b) Amsterdam.
(c) Paris.
(d) London.

5. All of the fellow boarders at the boarding house where the narrator stays in Chapter 5 work as what?
(a) Farmhands.
(b) Cigar makers.
(c) Blacksmiths.
(d) Basket weavers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What habit does the narrator say he picked up on very young that “makes the piano a sympathetic, singing instrument” in Chapter 2?

2. Whose love from the opera Faust does the narrator describe as a mockery in Chapter 9?

3. The narrator states in Chapter 4 that he stood for an hour watching four or five men saving what by the road?

4. Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

5. The narrator says in Chapter 1 that he feels “a sort of diabolical desire to gather up all the little tragedies” of his life and turn them into what?

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