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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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?
(a) Blueberry muffins.
(b) Pancakes.
(c) Waffles.
(d) Biscuits.

3. Who shows the narrator to a boarding house in the beginning of Chapter 5?
(a) A minister.
(b) A butcher.
(c) A policeman.
(d) A judge.

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

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

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) “Animals.”
(c) “Devil.”
(d) “Indian.”

7. 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) “Vivid detail.”
(b) “A die.”
(c) “Bad memories.”
(d) “Extreme pressure.”

8. 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 sympathetic.
(c) He became more reserved.
(d) He became more outspoken.

9. In Chapter 5, the narrator compares the black man and his fight to what bearing the “fury of the storm”?
(a) “The redwood tree.”
(b) “The bristlecone pine tree.”
(c) “The cedar tree.”
(d) “The willow tree.”

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

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

12. Within how much time is the narrator able to speak Spanish like a native after working at the factory in Chapter 5?
(a) 9 moths.
(b) 2 years.
(c) 6 months.
(d) 1 year.

13. To what educational institution is the narrator headed in the beginning of Chapter 4?
(a) Boston University.
(b) Dallas University.
(c) Atlanta University.
(d) New York University.

14. 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) “Sing without being loud.”
(b) “Fly without being graceful.”
(c) “Sing without melody.”
(d) “Eat without being vulnerable.”

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is stolen along with the narrator’s money from his trunk in Chapter 4?

4. 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?

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

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