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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who collected the Uncle Remus stories in the narrative?
(a) The Texan.
(b) The widow.
(c) The Millionaire.
(d) Joel Chandler Harris.

2. What character in the book is killed at the end of Chapter 8?
(a) The Jew.
(b) The Millionaire.
(c) The Texan.
(d) The Widow.

3. What city does the narrator compare to “a beauty spot on the face of the earth” in Chapter 9?
(a) Amsterdam.
(b) London.
(c) Venice.
(d) Paris.

4. What does the narrator buy for the women who give him French lessons at the café in Chapter 9?
(a) Coffee and cake.
(b) Beer and cigarettes.
(c) Wine and cheese.
(d) Croissants and coffee.

5. The man that the narrator befriends on the ship in Chapter 10 studied at what university?
(a) Howard University.
(b) The University of Florida.
(c) Fisk University.
(d) The University of Georgia.

6. According to the narrator in Chapter 9, “The Londoner seems to think that Americans are people whose only claim to be classed as civilized is that they have” what?
(a) Religion.
(b) Money.
(c) Morals.
(d) Intelligence.

7. To what does the narrator compare a massive iceberg viewed from the ship in Chapter 9?
(a) A mountain.
(b) A mesa.
(c) A diamond.
(d) An opal.

8. Where does the narrator describe spending many evenings and where “music there made [him] strangely reminiscent of my life in Connecticut” in Chapter 9?
(a) The Champs Elysees.
(b) The Grand Boulevards.
(c) The Hotel Continental.
(d) The Grand Opera.

9. What is a term used by the narrator to refer to a person who is born from one white parent and one black parent?
(a) Kiwi.
(b) Sicilian.
(c) Mulatto.
(d) Latino.

10. How much money does the narrator say that the most popular African American jockey of the day earns per year in Chapter 7?
(a) $12,000.
(b) $6,500.
(c) $8,200.
(d) $2,000.

11. Whom does the race discussion boil down to an argument between in the smoking train car in Chapter 10?
(a) The Union soldier and the Texan.
(b) The Jew and the Texan.
(c) Walter and the Jew.
(d) The Union soldier and the Jew.

12. What is the profession of the “fat Jewish looking man” that the narrator encounters on the train in Chapter 10?
(a) Shop owner.
(b) Farmer.
(c) Banker.
(d) Cigar manufacturer.

13. How many words does the narrator compile a list of in French as being “necessary” in Chapter 9?
(a) 65.
(b) 180.
(c) 300.
(d) 575.

14. How much money does the narrator say he has in his possession after their night at the “Club” in Chapter 8?
(a) $5.
(b) $300.
(c) $65.
(d) $125.

15. Where does the man that the narrator befriends on the ship ask him to stop for two or three days in Chapter 10?
(a) Washington, D.C.
(b) Miami.
(c) Boston.
(d) Atlanta.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what hotel do the narrator and the millionaire stay in Paris in Chapter 9?

2. The Union soldier says in Chapter 10, “After all, racial supremacy is merely a matter of” what?

3. What does the narrator claim the men gambling in the dice room are wearing in Chapter 6?

4. According to the narrator, who claim made the Jubilee songs public?

5. The narrator states that he is finally able to shake off his gloom when the ship reaches what harbor in Chapter 9?

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