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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. By what age could the narrator play by ear all of the hymns and songs his mother knew?
(a) 4.
(b) 12.
(c) 7.
(d) 15.
2. What term from the book refers to “the boys who pulled the long stems from the tobacco leaves”?
(a) Gougers.
(b) Stemmers.
(c) Strippers.
(d) Rippers.
3. How old is the narrator when his mother decides to enter him into public school?
(a) 5.
(b) 9.
(c) 11.
(d) 15.
4. What does the narrator describe growing along the edge of the fence by the vegetable garden in Chapter 1?
(a) Potatoes.
(b) Blackberries.
(c) Huckleberries.
(d) Tomatoes.
5. The porter tells the narrator that he has not had how many hours of sleep since he left Jersey City in Chapter 4?
(a) 10.
(b) 6.
(c) 3.
(d) 12.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does the tall man with the small, dark moustache drill a hole through in Chapter 1 as the narrator watches?
2. What does the narrator say he has never been good at because his “ideas of interpretation were always too strongly individual”?
3. Who does the narrator say stood at the head of his list of heroes for a long time in Chapter 2?
4. All of the fellow boarders at the boarding house where the narrator stays in Chapter 5 work as what?
5. The narrator of the novel was born in a small town in what state?
Short Essay Questions
1. When and where was the author of the book born and raised? How are his parents described?
2. Where did James Weldon Johnson attend university? How is this institution described?
3. What advice is the narrator given after his money is stolen in Chapter 4? Who helps him out?
4. What does the narrator discover when he encounters the porter at a dance in Chapter 5?
5. To whom were African American narratives during the Reconstruction Era generally addressed? Why?
6. How does the theme of identity apply to the novel? How does it apply to the narrator?
7. Who is the narrator’s guide when he first arrives in Atlanta in Chapter 4? What are the narrator’s impressions of the city?
8. What elements does the novel share with the Realist Movement in literary style?
9. How is the second Pullman car porter described by the narrator in Chapter 4?
10. Into what classes does the narrator categorize African Americans in Chapter 5?
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