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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the narrator say he has never been good at because his “ideas of interpretation were always too strongly individual”?
(a) Interpreting the Bible.
(b) An accompanist.
(c) Composing music.
(d) Running a business.

3. What is stolen along with the narrator’s money from his trunk in Chapter 4?
(a) A pair of shoes.
(b) A hat.
(c) A jacket.
(d) A necktie.

4. The narrator states in Chapter 2, “In the life of every one there is a limited number of unhappy experiences which are not written upon the memory, but stamped there with” what?
(a) “A die.”
(b) “Vivid detail.”
(c) “Extreme pressure.”
(d) “Bad memories.”

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

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

7. Where does the porter say he will return to school in the winter in Chapter 4?
(a) Atlanta.
(b) Raleigh.
(c) Nashville.
(d) Birmingham.

8. Whose schoolwork did the narrator largely complete for him, as described in Chapter 2?
(a) The Girl's.
(b) Red Head’s.
(c) Walter's.
(d) Shiny's.

9. The narrator is earning how much money per week after working at the cigar factory for three months in Chapter 5?
(a) $10.
(b) $2.
(c) $4.
(d) $7.

10. What does the narrator say he had a particular fondness for in his childhood in Chapter 1?
(a) Black keys.
(b) White keys.
(c) Pedals.
(d) Slidebars.

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

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

13. 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.

14. 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 horse cart.
(b) A hack.
(c) A canoe.
(d) A sailboat.

15. What present does the narrator describe receiving from his father in Chapter 3?
(a) A piano.
(b) A watch.
(c) A fishing rod.
(d) A bicycle.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator claims in Chapter 1, “As I look back now I can see that I was a perfect little” what?

2. To whom does the narrator claim to have developed a “sympathetic bond” with at school in Chapter 2?

3. What does the narrator describe growing along the edge of the fence by the vegetable garden in Chapter 1?

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

5. 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?

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