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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By what mode of transportation do the narrator and the millionaire arrive in Paris in Chapter 9?
(a) Train.
(b) Boat.
(c) Automobile.
(d) Plane.

2. 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) The University of Georgia.
(d) Fisk University.

3. 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) Bruneau’s.
(b) Lambert's.
(c) Mendelssohn's.
(d) Picconi’s.

4. The narrator claims in Chapter 8 that his section of New York is limited to how many blocks?
(a) 4.
(b) 25.
(c) 42.
(d) 10.

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

6. What does the narrator buy for the women who give him French lessons at the café in Chapter 9?
(a) Beer and cigarettes.
(b) Croissants and coffee.
(c) Wine and cheese.
(d) Coffee and cake.

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

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

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

10. What character in the book is killed at the end of Chapter 8?
(a) The Jew.
(b) The Widow.
(c) The Millionaire.
(d) The Texan.

11. When was Frederick Douglass born?
(a) 1884.
(b) 1818.
(c) 1879.
(d) 1833.

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

13. To what does the narrator compare a massive iceberg viewed from the ship in Chapter 9?
(a) A mesa.
(b) A diamond.
(c) A mountain.
(d) An opal.

14. 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) 27th Street and Sixth Avenue.
(c) 6th Street and Ninth Avenue.
(d) 37th Street and First Avenue.

15. At what institution does the narrator spend a day in Nashville in Chapter 10?
(a) Nashville State University.
(b) Fisk University.
(c) Howard University.
(d) The University of Tennessee.

Short Answer Questions

1. While at the opera in Chapter 9, the narrator realizes that the beautiful young woman sitting next to him is whom?

2. Where had the Union soldier invested capital, according to the narrator in Chapter 10?

3. Where does the narrator describe spending many evenings and where “music there made [him] strangely reminiscent of my life in Connecticut” in Chapter 9?

4. According to the author in Chapter 10, “Southerners are very much like” who “in that they must talk”?

5. 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?

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