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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) “Eat without being vulnerable.”
(c) “Sing without melody.”
(d) “Sing without being loud.”

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

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

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

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

7. What book does the narrator describe as having “used to lie in splendid neglect on the center table in our little parlor” in Chapter 2?
(a) The Korah.
(b) The Torah.
(c) The Bible.
(d) The Episcopal Prayer-book.

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

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

10. How old does the narrator say he was when he “appeared on a program with a number of adults at an entertainment given for some charitable purpose, and carried off the honors” in Chapter 2?
(a) 12.
(b) 14.
(c) 17.
(d) 8.

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

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

13. What term from Chapter 5 refers to a government led by a committee of military leaders?
(a) Tribunal.
(b) Revolution.
(c) Utopia.
(d) Junta.

14. With what does the narrator describe having been allowed to play by the tall man with the small, dark moustache in Chapter 1?
(a) A croquet set.
(b) A 100-year-old sword.
(c) A puppy.
(d) A gold pocket watch.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. 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?

3. The narrator says in Chapter 5 that he picked up the cigar-maker’s habit of riding around in what on Sunday afternoons?

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

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

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