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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does the narrator describe surrounding the flowers in the front yard of his childhood home in Chapter 1?
(a) A white picket fence.
(b) Glass bottles.
(c) Large rocks.
(d) Cherry trees.

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

5. 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) “Bad memories.”
(c) “Extreme pressure.”
(d) “Vivid detail.”

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) “White man.”
(b) “Indian.”
(c) “Animals.”
(d) “Devil.”

7. 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) The race question.
(b) The weather.
(c) Women.
(d) Their children.

8. Within how much time is the narrator accounted the fastest at pulling the long stems from tobacco leaves at the factory in Chapter 5?
(a) 1 month.
(b) 10 days.
(c) 4 days.
(d) 2 weeks.

9. The narrator says that when he was shown about the grounds of the university, he was especially interested in what building in Chapter 4?
(a) The industrial building.
(b) The library.
(c) The mathematics building.
(d) The gymnasium.

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

11. 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 Bible.
(b) The Torah.
(c) The Korah.
(d) The Episcopal Prayer-book.

12. How does the narrator say he changed his attitudes toward his peers after the discovery that he was biracial?
(a) He became more judgmental.
(b) He became more reserved.
(c) He became more sympathetic.
(d) He became more outspoken.

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

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

15. 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) 1 year.
(b) 2 months.
(c) 3 weeks.
(d) 9 months.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who shows the narrator to a boarding house in the beginning of Chapter 5?

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

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

4. Where does the porter say he will return to school in the winter in Chapter 4?

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

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