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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the nickname of the fourteen-year-old boy that the narrator befriends in Chapter 1?
(a) Red Head.
(b) Blue foot.
(c) Black hair.
(d) Green eyes.

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

3. What does the Texan take out and drink during the racial discussion in the train car in Chapter 10?
(a) Coffee.
(b) Water.
(c) Whiskey.
(d) Milk.

4. The narrator states in Chapter 4 that he stood for an hour watching four or five men saving what by the road?
(a) A cart of vegetables.
(b) A mule.
(c) A child.
(d) A dog.

5. 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) “Devil.”
(b) “Animals.”
(c) “White man.”
(d) “Indian.”

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the “slender be-spectacled young man” from that the narrator encounters on the train in Chapter 10?

2. The narrator says in Chapter 5 that he picked up the cigar-maker’s habit of riding around in what on Sunday afternoons?

3. What word from Chapter 7 means a frequent visitor to a place?

4. 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?

5. What is a term used by the narrator to refer to a person who is born from one white parent and one black parent?

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