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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose diplomacy does the narrator say is to be admired when the discussion of race comes up in the smoking train car in Chapter 10?
(a) The Union soldier’s.
(b) The Jew's.
(c) Red Head's.
(d) The Texan's.

2. What animal does the narrator look for on the iceberg in Chapter 9?
(a) A polar bear.
(b) A penguin.
(c) An otter.
(d) A marmot.

3. Where is the narrator headed by ship in the beginning of Chapter 10?
(a) Columbus.
(b) Boston.
(c) Chicago.
(d) Detroit.

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

5. 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) Money.
(b) Intelligence.
(c) Religion.
(d) Morals.

6. Who was the author of The Souls of Black Folk?
(a) W. E. B. Du Bois.
(b) Langston Hughes.
(c) Frederick Douglass.
(d) Zora Neale Hurston.

7. How long do the narrator and the millionaire stay in Paris in Chapter 9?
(a) 2-3 days.
(b) 27-28 weeks.
(c) 14-15 months.
(d) 6-7 days.

8. The narrator states in Chapter 9 that he has become quite friendly with a “stolid, slow-witted fellow” from where?
(a) Holland.
(b) Sweden.
(c) Luxembourg.
(d) Norway.

9. The narrator quotes an African American man as once having said, “"It's no disgrace to be black, but it's often very” what?
(a) Aggravating.
(b) Humbling.
(c) Enlightening.
(d) Inconvenient.

10. Where do the narrator and four of his companions go to seek a lodging-house after arriving in New York in Chapter 6?
(a) 37th Street and First Avenue.
(b) 6th Street and Ninth Avenue.
(c) 27th Street and Sixth Avenue.
(d) 64th Street and Thirteenth Avenue.

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

12. What is not allowed at the “Club,” according to the narrator in Chapter 7?
(a) Loitering.
(b) Women.
(c) Gambling.
(d) Solicitation.

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

14. The narrator describes the poker players as practicing what sort of politeness for each other in Chapter 6?
(a) Platonic.
(b) Chesterfieldian.
(c) Aristotelian.
(d) Orwellian.

15. 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) 4,500.
(c) 2,000.
(d) 250.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much money does the narrator lose on his second trip to the gambling house in Chapter 8?

2. To what does the narrator compare a massive iceberg viewed from the ship in Chapter 9?

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

4. What is in the basement of the “Club” that the narrator goes to with his companions in Chapter 6?

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

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