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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where does the narrator go after leaving Nashville in Chapter 10?
(a) Richmond.
(b) Atlanta.
(c) Denver.
(d) New York City.

3. For how long does the narrator stay in Washington, D.C. in Chapter 10?
(a) 4-5 weeks.
(b) 2-3 weeks.
(c) 9-10 days.
(d) 4-5 days.

4. The narrator compares New York City to a great _________ at the gate of the country in Chapter 6?
(a) Devil.
(b) Troll.
(c) Serpent.
(d) Witch.

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

6. At what hotel do the narrator and the millionaire stay in Paris in Chapter 9?
(a) The Grand Opera.
(b) The Grand Boulevards.
(c) The Champs Elysees.
(d) The Hotel Continental.

7. What city does the narrator say “stands for the conservatism, the solidarity, the utilitarianism” in Chapter 9?
(a) Venice.
(b) Paris.
(c) Amsterdam.
(d) London.

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

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

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 Texan.
(b) The Union soldier.
(c) The Jew.
(d) Shiny.

11. The narrator claims in Chapter 8 that he “used to play whose "Wedding March" in a manner that never failed to arouse enthusiasm among the patrons of the "Club”?
(a) Picconi’s.
(b) Mendelssohn's.
(c) Bruneau’s.
(d) Lambert's.

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

13. 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 Hotel Continental.
(b) The Champs Elysees.
(c) The Grand Boulevards.
(d) The Grand Opera.

14. 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 Jew's.
(b) Red Head's.
(c) The Texan's.
(d) The Union soldier’s.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator buy for the women who give him French lessons at the café in Chapter 9?

2. What word from Chapter 7 means a frequent visitor to a place?

3. What term is used by some historians to designate the Germanic tribes who invaded and settled the south and east of Britain beginning in the early 5th century?

4. The narrator quotes an African American man as once having said, “"It's no disgrace to be black, but it's often very” what?

5. Where is the “slender be-spectacled young man” from that the narrator encounters on the train in Chapter 10?

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