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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. How many years has it been since the narrator has seen his father when he encounters him in Chapter 9?
(a) 10 years.
(b) 2 years.
(c) 14 years.
(d) 6 years.

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

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

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

10. The narrator claims that he did not feel at ease until the ship was where in Chapter 9?
(a) Barcelona.
(b) Out of the New York Harbor.
(c) Boston.
(d) Reykjavik.

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

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

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 Opera.
(d) The Grand Boulevards.

14. In what city does a man editing a credited black newspaper give the narrator a great deal of time and conversation in Chapter 10?
(a) Boston.
(b) Atlanta.
(c) Richmond.
(d) New York City.

15. The narrator claims in Chapter 10, “I have no doubt that the Negro would make a good Chinaman, with exception of” what?
(a) “The mouth.”
(b) “The ears.”
(c) “The pigtail.”
(d) “The eyes.”

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is the profession of the “fat Jewish looking man” that the narrator encounters on the train in Chapter 10?

4. 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?

5. Where does the man that the narrator befriends on the ship ask him to stop for two or three days in Chapter 10?

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