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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. How much money per week is the room that the narrator rents at the boarding house in the beginning of Chapter 5?
(a) $7.95.
(b) $2.00.
(c) $3.50.
(d) $5.75.

2. What term from the book refers to “the boys who pulled the long stems from the tobacco leaves”?
(a) Gougers.
(b) Strippers.
(c) Stemmers.
(d) Rippers.

3. What nickname does the narrator give to the boy in his class whose face he describes as “black as night, but shone as though it was polished” in Chapter 1?
(a) Shiny.
(b) Red head.
(c) Onyx.
(d) Blue Eyes.

4. To whom does the narrator claim to have developed a “sympathetic bond” with at school in Chapter 2?
(a) Shiny.
(b) Red Head.
(c) The Girl.
(d) Joel Chandler Harris.

5. Whom does the narrator describe as “a bright young fellow who was himself a student” that he talks with on the train ride in Chapter 4?
(a) A shoe shiner.
(b) A breeder.
(c) A Pullman car porter.
(d) A horse breeder.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

2. The narrator of the novel was born a few years after the close of what war?

3. What city does the narrator describe as “a big, dull, red town” in Chapter 4?

4. The narrator of the novel was born in a small town in what state?

5. To what educational institution is the narrator headed in the beginning of Chapter 4?

Short Essay Questions

1. Into what classes does the narrator categorize African Americans in Chapter 5?

2. What does the narrator discover when he encounters the porter at a dance in Chapter 5?

3. How is the early childhood of the narrator described in Chapter 1? Where does he live?

4. Who is the narrator of The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man? What secret does he discuss in Chapter 1?

5. What is early education like for the narrator? When does he enter public school and how is this setting described?

6. How does the motif of music apply in the novel? What is the narrator’s relationship to music?

7. How does the theme of identity apply to the novel? How does it apply to the narrator?

8. In what ways does the narrator show blindness and naiveté regarding his race?

9. How are the author’s teenage years described? For whom did he work and where?

10. How is the second Pullman car porter described by the narrator in Chapter 4?

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