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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. What city does the narrator compare to “a beauty spot on the face of the earth” in Chapter 9?
(a) Amsterdam.
(b) Venice.
(c) Paris.
(d) London.

2. 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?
(a) Caucasian.
(b) Anglo-Saxon.
(c) Latino.
(d) Arabian.

3. The narrator states in Chapter 10, “It is the spirit of the South to defend everything belonging to it. The North is too” what “for such a spirit”?
(a) “Cosmopolitan and tolerant.”
(b) “Proper and religious.”
(c) “Civilized and educated.”
(d) “Rich and enlightened.”

4. 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) 10,000.
(b) 250.
(c) 2,000.
(d) 4,500.

5. What city does the narrator say “stands for the conservatism, the solidarity, the utilitarianism” in Chapter 9?
(a) Venice.
(b) London.
(c) Amsterdam.
(d) Paris.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many words does the narrator compile a list of in French as being “necessary” in Chapter 9?

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

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

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

5. What is a term used by the narrator to refer to a person who is born from one white parent and one black parent?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is ragtime music received in Europe, according to the narrator in Chapter 9?

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

3. How is humor used in the slave narratives and in the novel?

4. Where does the narrator go after returning to the United States in Chapter 10? Who does he meet?

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

6. How realistic are the hardships faced by African Americans as depicted in the narrative?

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

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

9. What are the narrator’s impressions of the African Americans he meets in the rural South in Chapter 10?

10. How does the narrator respond to the events surrounding the widow in the end of Chapter 8?

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