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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To whom does the narrator say he became inseparable in school in Chapter 2?
(a) Shiny.
(b) Joel Chandler Harris.
(c) The Girl.
(d) Red Head.

2. Who is described as was “fierce, eloquent and profane in his argument and, in a lower sense, there was a direct logic in what he said, which was convincing” in Chapter 10?
(a) The Union soldier.
(b) The Jew.
(c) Shiny.
(d) The Texan.

3. The narrator says in Chapter 4, “I have since learned that this ability to laugh heartily is, in part, the salvation of the American Negro; it does much to keep him from going the way of the” what?
(a) “Animals.”
(b) “White man.”
(c) “Devil.”
(d) “Indian.”

4. Where has the narrator arrived in the beginning of Chapter 11?
(a) Richmond.
(b) Chicago.
(c) New York City.
(d) Atlanta.

5. 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?
(a) “Fly without being graceful.”
(b) “Sing without being loud.”
(c) “Sing without melody.”
(d) “Eat without being vulnerable.”

Short Answer Questions

1. The husband of the woman who runs the boarding house is from where in Chapter 5?

2. What does the narrator describe under the shed in the backyard of his childhood home in Chapter 1?

3. When did James Weldon Johnson die?

4. Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

5. Where does the narrator move with his mother in Chapter 1?

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