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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 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.

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

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

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

5. According to the narrator in Chapter 9, “A French child with a vocabulary of two hundred words can express more spoken ideas than a student of French can with a knowledge of” how many?
(a) 2,000.
(b) 4,500.
(c) 250.
(d) 10,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator claims in Chapter 10, “I have no doubt that the Negro would make a good Chinaman, with exception of” what?

2. Who collected the Uncle Remus stories in the narrative?

3. What character in the book is killed at the end of Chapter 8?

4. What does the narrator claim the men gambling in the dice room are wearing in Chapter 6?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Who hires the narrator as a patron in Chapter 7? What does the narrator do for his employer?

2. How does the narrator describe the rooming house and landlord where he first stays in New York in Chapter 6?

3. With whom does the narrator discuss race relations while on the train in Chapter 10?

4. What happens to the wealthy widow in Chapter 8? Why?

5. How does the narrative distinguish the differences between the North and South regarding race relations?

6. How does the narrator describe the patrons of the club where he plays music in Chapter 6?

7. How did the author incorporate slave narratives in his descriptions of the South in Chapter 10?

8. Whom does the narrator spot at the opera in Chapter 9? What is his reaction?

9. How are the parties thrown by the millionaire described by the narrator in the novel?

10. How is the millionaire described by the narrator? What does he look like?

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