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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The woman that the narrator falls in love with in Chapter 11 loves to hear him play what music?
(a) Bach.
(b) Chopin.
(c) Mozart.
(d) Brahms.

2. In what amount of time does the narrator dispose of his equity for more than double his investment in the tenement-house in Chapter 11?
(a) 10 months.
(b) 6 months.
(c) 2 months.
(d) 2 years.

3. According to the narrator in Chapter 2, the two immediate results of his “forced loneliness” were finding company in books and greater pleasure in what?
(a) Thought.
(b) Silence.
(c) Nature.
(d) Music.

4. The narrator claims that by his third morning in New York, he secured a job doing what in Chapter 8?
(a) Framing houses.
(b) Rolling cigars.
(c) Cleaning stables.
(d) Washing windows.

5. The narrator states in Chapter 2, “And this is the dwarfing, warping, distorting influence which operates upon each colored man in the United States. He is forced to take his outlook on all things, not from the viewpoint of a citizen, or a man, nor even a human being, but from the viewpoint of” what?
(a) “Society.”
(b) “An animal.”
(c) “A slave.”
(d) “A coloured man.”

Short Answer Questions

1. What present does the narrator describe receiving from his father in Chapter 3?

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. What does the narrator say he had a particular fondness for in his childhood in Chapter 1?

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. Within how much time is the narrator accounted the fastest at pulling the long stems from tobacco leaves at the factory in Chapter 5?

(see the answer key)

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