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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 tall man with the small, dark moustache drill a hole through in Chapter 1 as the narrator watches?
(a) A five-dollar silver piece.
(b) A five-dollar gold piece.
(c) A ten-dollar gold piece.
(d) A two-dollar silver piece.

2. What word does the narrator use in Chapter 6 meaning anything that transforms, purifies, or refines?
(a) Alembic.
(b) Corrosive.
(c) Eclipse.
(d) Tangible.

3. The narrator describes the poker players as practicing what sort of politeness for each other in Chapter 6?
(a) Orwellian.
(b) Platonic.
(c) Chesterfieldian.
(d) Aristotelian.

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

5. What is the Pullman car porter wearing when the narrator encounters him at a ball in Chapter 5?
(a) The narrator’s jacket.
(b) The narrator’s shoes.
(c) The narrator’s hat.
(d) The narrator’s tie.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose diplomacy does the narrator say is to be admired when the discussion of race comes up in the smoking train car in Chapter 10?

2. The porter tells the narrator that he has not had how many hours of sleep since he left Jersey City in Chapter 4?

3. 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?

4. The narrator states in Chapter 2 that “a true artist can no more play upon the piano or violin without putting his whole body in accord with the emotions he is striving to express than a swallow can” do what?

5. By what age could the narrator play by ear all of the hymns and songs his mother knew?

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