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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator states in Chapter 2 that “a true artist can no more play upon the piano or violin without putting his whole body in accord with the emotions he is striving to express than a swallow can” do what?
(a) “Fly without being graceful.”
(b) “Sing without melody.”
(c) “Sing without being loud.”
(d) “Eat without being vulnerable.”

2. 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) Nature.
(b) Silence.
(c) Music.
(d) Thought.

3. What does the narrator describe growing along the edge of the fence by the vegetable garden in Chapter 1?
(a) Blackberries.
(b) Tomatoes.
(c) Huckleberries.
(d) Potatoes.

4. What city does the narrator describe as “a big, dull, red town” in Chapter 4?
(a) Atlanta.
(b) Knoxville.
(c) Miami.
(d) Biloxi.

5. How many students does the narrator say are at the university in Chapter 4?
(a) 200-250.
(b) 600-800.
(c) 1,200-1,500.
(d) 300-400.

6. What does the narrator have for breakfast that is described as “boiled to the consistency where it could be eaten with a fork” in Chapter 4?
(a) Hominy.
(b) Crawfish.
(c) Collard greens.
(d) Chitlins.

7. The narrator of the novel was born a few years after the close of what war?
(a) World War II.
(b) The Civil War.
(c) World War I.
(d) The War of 1812.

8. All of the fellow boarders at the boarding house where the narrator stays in Chapter 5 work as what?
(a) Cigar makers.
(b) Blacksmiths.
(c) Farmhands.
(d) Basket weavers.

9. Where does the narrator move with his mother in Chapter 1?
(a) Georgia.
(b) Ohio.
(c) Main.
(d) Connecticut.

10. The landlord of the boarding house in Chapter 5 makes approximately how many cigars per day?
(a) 100.
(b) 220.
(c) 60.
(d) 140.

11. The narrator claims in Chapter 1, “As I look back now I can see that I was a perfect little” what?
(a) Engineer.
(b) Aristocrat.
(c) Patsy.
(d) Citizen.

12. How much money per week is the room that the narrator rents at the boarding house in the beginning of Chapter 5?
(a) $3.50.
(b) $5.75.
(c) $2.00.
(d) $7.95.

13. What does the tall man with the small, dark moustache drill a hole through in Chapter 1 as the narrator watches?
(a) A five-dollar gold piece.
(b) A ten-dollar gold piece.
(c) A two-dollar silver piece.
(d) A five-dollar silver piece.

14. In Chapter 1, the narrator states that he is led to reveal his secret by the same impulse as what?
(a) “A blind rat.”
(b) “A nun lost in the woods.”
(c) “The unfound-out criminal.”
(d) “The doctor telling his patient he’ll die.”

15. Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
(a) Louisa May Alcott.
(b) Frederick Douglass.
(c) Harriet Beecher Stowe.
(d) Mark Twain.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator is earning how much money per week after working at the cigar factory for three months in Chapter 5?

2. In Chapter 5, the narrator compares the black man and his fight to what bearing the “fury of the storm”?

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

4. To what educational institution is the narrator headed in the beginning of Chapter 4?

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?

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