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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What speaker is described in Chapter 11 as surpassing the others in eloquence and in his representation of earnestness and faith?
(a) Frederick Douglass.
(b) James Booker.
(c) Josephine Baker.
(d) Booker T. Washington.

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

3. Within how much time is the narrator able to speak Spanish like a native after working at the factory in Chapter 5?
(a) 6 months.
(b) 9 moths.
(c) 1 year.
(d) 2 years.

4. What word from Chapter 7 means a frequent visitor to a place?
(a) Truant.
(b) Guest.
(c) Habitué.
(d) Commoner.

5. How much money does the narrator put in his trunk while his fellow roommates sleep in Chapter 4?
(a) $500.
(b) $1,000.
(c) $100.
(d) $300.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the narrator say stood at the head of his list of heroes for a long time in Chapter 2?

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

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

4. How much money per week is the room that the narrator rents at the boarding house in the beginning of Chapter 5?

5. Who wrote the Christian allegory The Pilgrim's Progress from This World to That Which Is to Come?

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