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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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 Hotel Continental.
(c) The Grand Opera.
(d) The Grand Boulevards.

3. During his stay in Paris, the narrator usually goes to the theater and ends up at the big café located where in Chapter 9?
(a) The Grand Opera.
(b) The Grand Boulevards.
(c) The Champs Elysees.
(d) The Hotel Continental.

4. The “white-mustached, well dressed man” that the narrator encounters on the train in Chapter 10 fought in what war?
(a) World War I.
(b) The Revolutionary War.
(c) The War of 1812.
(d) The Civil War.

5. According to the narrator in Chapter 9, “A French child with a vocabulary of two hundred words can express more spoken ideas than a student of French can with a knowledge of” how many?
(a) 10,000.
(b) 250.
(c) 2,000.
(d) 4,500.

6. What food does the narrator describe as having the power of absorbing alcoholic liquors that have been taken into the stomach in Chapter 7?
(a) Meatloaf.
(b) Chop-suey.
(c) Lasagna.
(d) Salmon.

7. Where do the narrator and the millionaire walk and sit in chairs along the sidewalk in Chapter 9?
(a) The Champs Elysees.
(b) The Hotel Continental.
(c) The Grand Boulevards.
(d) The Grand Opra.

8. At what time do the narrator and the millionaire arrive at Saint Lazare in Chapter 9?
(a) 2:30 a.m.
(b) 8:45 a.m.
(c) 9:15 p.m.
(d) 4:00 p.m.

9. How much money does the narrator lose on his second trip to the gambling house in Chapter 8?
(a) $235.
(b) $120.
(c) $185.
(d) $50.

10. Where is the “slender be-spectacled young man” from that the narrator encounters on the train in Chapter 10?
(a) Maine.
(b) Massachusetts.
(c) Ohio.
(d) Georgia.

11. What adjective from Chapter 6 means capable of or successful in producing an intended result?
(a) Indigenous.
(b) Efficacious.
(c) Erroneous.
(d) Platonic.

12. Where is the “tall, rawboned, red-faced man” from that the narrator encounters on the train in Chapter 10?
(a) Illinois.
(b) Colorado.
(c) Texas.
(d) Ohio.

13. What dice game is being played in the back room at the refurbished bar and gambling house that the narrator attends in Chapter 6?
(a) Craps.
(b) Shoot the Moon.
(c) Backgammon.
(d) Yahtzee.

14. Where had the Union soldier invested capital, according to the narrator in Chapter 10?
(a) New York City.
(b) Boston.
(c) Richland.
(d) Atlanta.

15. According to the author in Chapter 10, “Southerners are very much like” who “in that they must talk”?
(a) Frenchmen.
(b) Englishmen.
(c) Russians.
(d) Spaniards.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Texan take out and drink during the racial discussion in the train car in Chapter 10?

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

3. Who collected the Uncle Remus stories in the narrative?

4. How much money does the narrator say he has in his possession after their night at the “Club” in Chapter 8?

5. The narrator claims in Chapter 8 that his section of New York is limited to how many blocks?

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