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

2. Whose diplomacy does the narrator say is to be admired when the discussion of race comes up in the smoking train car in Chapter 10?
(a) Red Head's.
(b) The Texan's.
(c) The Union soldier’s.
(d) The Jew's.

3. The millionaire offers to take the narrator to Europe with him instead of taking whom in Chapter 9?
(a) Shiny.
(b) Walter.
(c) Joel Chandler Harris.
(d) Red Head.

4. What is a term used by the narrator to refer to a person who is born from one white parent and one black parent?
(a) Latino.
(b) Kiwi.
(c) Sicilian.
(d) Mulatto.

5. Whom does the race discussion boil down to an argument between in the smoking train car in Chapter 10?
(a) The Union soldier and the Jew.
(b) The Jew and the Texan.
(c) Walter and the Jew.
(d) The Union soldier and the Texan.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What word from Chapter 7 means a frequent visitor to a place?

3. The narrator claims that he did not feel at ease until the ship was where in Chapter 9?

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

5. What is in the basement of the “Club” that the narrator goes to with his companions in Chapter 6?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does the narrator describe the success of the Chinese restaurant under the “Club” in Chapter 7?

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

5. What does the narrator do upon arriving in New York in Chapter 6?

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

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

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

9. What musical style does the narrator describe in depth in Chapter 5? When did this style emerge?

10. How does the narrator describe the draw of New York in Chapter 6? What imagery is used?

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