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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To whom does the narrator say he became inseparable in school in Chapter 2?
(a) Red Head.
(b) The Girl.
(c) Joel Chandler Harris.
(d) Shiny.

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?
(a) Slippers.
(b) Newspaper.
(c) Slices of bread with butter.
(d) A glass of water.

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

4. The narrator says in Chapter 5 that he picked up the cigar-maker’s habit of riding around in what on Sunday afternoons?
(a) A canoe.
(b) A horse cart.
(c) A sailboat.
(d) A hack.

5. The narrator states in Chapter 5, “I am sure it would be safe to wager that no group of Southern white men could get together and talk for sixty minutes without bringing up” what?
(a) Women.
(b) Their children.
(c) The race question.
(d) The weather.

6. The narrator says in Chapter 4, “I have since learned that this ability to laugh heartily is, in part, the salvation of the American Negro; it does much to keep him from going the way of the” what?
(a) “Devil.”
(b) “White man.”
(c) “Indian.”
(d) “Animals.”

7. The narrator states in Chapter 4 that he stood for an hour watching four or five men saving what by the road?
(a) A cart of vegetables.
(b) A dog.
(c) A child.
(d) A mule.

8. To whom does the narrator claim to have developed a “sympathetic bond” with at school in Chapter 2?
(a) The Girl.
(b) Shiny.
(c) Red Head.
(d) Joel Chandler Harris.

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

10. How much money per week does the narrator earn as the “reader” at the cigar factory in Chapter 5?
(a) $10.
(b) $8.
(c) $25.
(d) $15.

11. The narrator of the novel was born in a small town in what state?
(a) New Mexico.
(b) Georgia.
(c) Kansas.
(d) Minnesota.

12. Whom does the narrator describe as “a bright young fellow who was himself a student” that he talks with on the train ride in Chapter 4?
(a) A horse breeder.
(b) A shoe shiner.
(c) A breeder.
(d) A Pullman car porter.

13. The husband of the woman who runs the boarding house is from where in Chapter 5?
(a) Mexico.
(b) Ecuador.
(c) Haiti.
(d) Cuba.

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

15. How much do the narrator and his companion each pay the waiter at the restaurant where they eat in Chapter 4?
(a) 50 cents.
(b) 10 cents.
(c) 75 cents.
(d) 20 cents.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. How much money does the narrator put in his trunk while his fellow roommates sleep in Chapter 4?

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

4. The narrator states in the beginning of Chapter 4 that the farther he got below __________, the more disappointed he became with the appearance of the country?

5. What does the narrator have for breakfast that is described as “so light and flaky that a fellow with any appetite at all would have no difficulty in disposing of eight or ten” in Chapter 4?

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