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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old does the narrator say he was when he “appeared on a program with a number of adults at an entertainment given for some charitable purpose, and carried off the honors” in Chapter 2?
(a) 17.
(b) 14.
(c) 12.
(d) 8.

2. How much money per week is the room that the narrator rents at the boarding house in the beginning of Chapter 5?
(a) $2.00.
(b) $3.50.
(c) $7.95.
(d) $5.75.

3. What book does the narrator describe as having “used to lie in splendid neglect on the center table in our little parlor” in Chapter 2?
(a) The Korah.
(b) The Torah.
(c) The Bible.
(d) The Episcopal Prayer-book.

4. Approximately how much money does the landlord at the boarding house earn per week, according to the narrator in Chapter 5?
(a) $50-75.
(b) $120-150.
(c) $80-100.
(d) $35-40.

5. According to the author in Chapter 10, “Southerners are very much like” who “in that they must talk”?
(a) Englishmen.
(b) Frenchmen.
(c) Spaniards.
(d) Russians.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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”?

2. 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?

3. The narrator is earning how much money per week after working at the cigar factory for three months in Chapter 5?

4. What is the Pullman car porter wearing when the narrator encounters him at a ball in Chapter 5?

5. How much money per week does the narrator earn as the “reader” at the cigar factory in Chapter 5?

(see the answer key)

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