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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whom does the narrator describe as “a bright young fellow who was himself a student” that he talks with on the train ride in Chapter 4?
(a) A horse breeder.
(b) A shoe shiner.
(c) A breeder.
(d) A Pullman car porter.

2. 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) Interpreting the Bible.
(c) Running a business.
(d) An accompanist.

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

4. 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) 2 months.
(b) 9 months.
(c) 1 year.
(d) 3 weeks.

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

6. It is the narrator’s duty to bring what to the tall man with the small, dark moustache when he visits in Chapter 1?
(a) A glass of water.
(b) Newspaper.
(c) Slices of bread with butter.
(d) Slippers.

7. 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 gold pocket watch.
(b) A croquet set.
(c) A 100-year-old sword.
(d) A puppy.

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

9. To whom does the narrator claim to have developed a “sympathetic bond” with at school in Chapter 2?
(a) Joel Chandler Harris.
(b) The Girl.
(c) Red Head.
(d) Shiny.

10. 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.

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

12. What term from the book refers to “the boys who pulled the long stems from the tobacco leaves”?
(a) Rippers.
(b) Strippers.
(c) Gougers.
(d) Stemmers.

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

14. 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 mathematics building.
(b) The library.
(c) The industrial building.
(d) The gymnasium.

15. 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) “Eat without being vulnerable.”
(c) “Fly without being graceful.”
(d) “Sing without melody.”

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How much money per week is the room that the narrator rents at the boarding house in the beginning of Chapter 5?

3. 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?

4. The narrator’s mother supported herself and her son by what means, according to the narrator in Chapter 1?

5. The narrator of the novel was born a few years after the close of what war?

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