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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In describing New York, the narrator states, “To some natures this stimulant of life in a great city becomes a thing as binding and necessary as” being addicted to what substance?
(a) Whiskey.
(b) Tobacco.
(c) Opium.
(d) Marijuana.

2. In what city does a man editing a credited black newspaper give the narrator a great deal of time and conversation in Chapter 10?
(a) Boston.
(b) Atlanta.
(c) Richmond.
(d) New York City.

3. What does the narrator describe under the shed in the backyard of his childhood home in Chapter 1?
(a) Wooden wash-tubs.
(b) Animal feed.
(c) Bicycles.
(d) Shovel and plow.

4. The narrator says in Chapter 1 that he feels “a sort of diabolical desire to gather up all the little tragedies” of his life and turn them into what?
(a) “Fairy tales for the forgotten.”
(b) “Anecdotes on nature’s whimsy.”
(c) “Double rainbows.”
(d) “A practical joke on society.”

5. Where had the Union soldier invested capital, according to the narrator in Chapter 10?
(a) Atlanta.
(b) New York City.
(c) Boston.
(d) Richland.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator’s companion tells him in Chapter 4 that all of the “respectable coloured people” eat where?

2. What city does the narrator compare to “a beauty spot on the face of the earth” in Chapter 9?

3. The narrator describes the poker players as practicing what sort of politeness for each other in Chapter 6?

4. The narrator claims that he did not feel at ease until the ship was where in Chapter 9?

5. What does the narrator say he has never been good at because his “ideas of interpretation were always too strongly individual”?

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