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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What genre of music does the narrator first hear at the “Club” in Chapter 6?
(a) Gospel.
(b) Ragtime.
(c) Reggae.
(d) Blues.

2. Where does the porter say he will return to school in the winter in Chapter 4?
(a) Atlanta.
(b) Birmingham.
(c) Raleigh.
(d) Nashville.

3. 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?
(a) 10,000.
(b) 250.
(c) 4,500.
(d) 2,000.

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

5. To what does the narrator compare a massive iceberg viewed from the ship in Chapter 9?
(a) A mountain.
(b) A diamond.
(c) An opal.
(d) A mesa.

Short Answer Questions

1. What character in the book is killed at the end of Chapter 8?

2. It is the narrator’s duty to bring what to the tall man with the small, dark moustache when he visits in Chapter 1?

3. The narrator claims that by his third morning in New York, he secured a job doing what in Chapter 8?

4. The Union soldier says in Chapter 10, “After all, racial supremacy is merely a matter of” what?

5. What does the narrator describe surrounding the flowers in the front yard of his childhood home in Chapter 1?

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