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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) 3 weeks.
(b) 2 months.
(c) 9 months.
(d) 1 year.

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

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

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?
(a) Chicago.
(b) St. Louis.
(c) Washington, D.C.
(d) New York City.

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

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

7. The narrator states in Chapter 2 of his mother that he did not remember “ever having seen her with a book in her hand, with the exception of” what?
(a) The Bible.
(b) The Koran.
(c) The Torah.
(d) The Episcopal Prayer-book.

8. What habit does the narrator say he picked up on very young that “makes the piano a sympathetic, singing instrument” in Chapter 2?
(a) Playing the black keys.
(b) Playing with his eyes closed.
(c) Playing the wrong notes.
(d) Using the pedals.

9. The porter tells the narrator that he has not had how many hours of sleep since he left Jersey City in Chapter 4?
(a) 12.
(b) 3.
(c) 6.
(d) 10.

10. 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.”

11. 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.

12. The narrator’s mother supported herself and her son by what means, according to the narrator in Chapter 1?
(a) Giving violin lessons.
(b) Growing vegetables.
(c) Tutoring students.
(d) Sewing.

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

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

15. The narrator states in Chapter 2, “And this is the dwarfing, warping, distorting influence which operates upon each colored man in the United States. He is forced to take his outlook on all things, not from the viewpoint of a citizen, or a man, nor even a human being, but from the viewpoint of” what?
(a) “An animal.”
(b) “A slave.”
(c) “Society.”
(d) “A coloured man.”

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. By what age could the narrator play by ear all of the hymns and songs his mother knew?

3. What term from the book refers to “the boys who pulled the long stems from the tobacco leaves”?

4. How old is the narrator when his mother decides to enter him into public school?

5. What does the narrator describe surrounding the flowers in the front yard of his childhood home in Chapter 1?

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