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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 Champs Elysees.
(c) The Grand Boulevards.
(d) The Hotel Continental.

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

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

4. What is in the basement of the “Club” that the narrator goes to with his companions in Chapter 6?
(a) A butcher shop.
(b) A Chinese Chop-suey restaurant.
(c) A brothel.
(d) Hundreds of boxes.

5. The narrator states in Chapter 10, “It is the spirit of the South to defend everything belonging to it. The North is too” what “for such a spirit”?
(a) “Civilized and educated.”
(b) “Proper and religious.”
(c) “Cosmopolitan and tolerant.”
(d) “Rich and enlightened.”

6. 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) Mulatto.
(b) Kiwi.
(c) Latino.
(d) Sicilian.

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

8. The narrator states that he is finally able to shake off his gloom when the ship reaches what harbor in Chapter 9?
(a) Bergen.
(b) Havre.
(c) Hamburg.
(d) Rotterdam.

9. 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.

10. Who is described as was “fierce, eloquent and profane in his argument and, in a lower sense, there was a direct logic in what he said, which was convincing” in Chapter 10?
(a) The Union soldier.
(b) Shiny.
(c) The Texan.
(d) The Jew.

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

12. What word does the narrator use in Chapter 6 meaning anything that transforms, purifies, or refines?
(a) Tangible.
(b) Corrosive.
(c) Alembic.
(d) Eclipse.

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

14. 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) 4,500.
(d) 2,000.

15. The narrator claims that by his third morning in New York, he secured a job doing what in Chapter 8?
(a) Framing houses.
(b) Rolling cigars.
(c) Cleaning stables.
(d) Washing windows.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the author of The Souls of Black Folk?

2. Where is the narrator headed by ship in the beginning of Chapter 10?

3. The narrator’s harrowed state of mind and seasickness keeps him miserable on the ship for how long before it begins to lift in Chapter 9?

4. For how long does the narrator stay in Washington, D.C. in Chapter 10?

5. What city does the narrator compare to “a beauty spot on the face of the earth” in Chapter 9?

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