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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whom does the race discussion boil down to an argument between in the smoking train car in Chapter 10?
(a) The Union soldier and the Jew.
(b) Walter and the Jew.
(c) The Jew and the Texan.
(d) The Union soldier and the Texan.

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

3. On what day of the week does the narrator’s mother play the piano in Chapter 1?
(a) Saturday.
(b) Sunday.
(c) Wednesday.
(d) Friday.

4. The landlady and her husband at the boarding house tell the narrator that the big winter hotels would not open within how much time in the beginning of Chapter 5?
(a) 9 months.
(b) 2 months.
(c) 1 year.
(d) 3 weeks.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where is the “tall, rawboned, red-faced man” from that the narrator encounters on the train in Chapter 10?

3. Where does the narrator describe attending a great meeting in the interest of Hampton Institute in Chapter 11?

4. It is the narrator’s duty to bring what to the tall man with the small, dark moustache when he visits in Chapter 1?

5. What habit does the narrator say he picked up on very young that “makes the piano a sympathetic, singing instrument” in Chapter 2?

(see the answer key)

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