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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 does the Texan take out and drink during the racial discussion in the train car in Chapter 10?
(a) Whiskey.
(b) Coffee.
(c) Milk.
(d) Water.

2. When was Frederick Douglass born?
(a) 1884.
(b) 1833.
(c) 1818.
(d) 1879.

3. Where is the “tall, rawboned, red-faced man” from that the narrator encounters on the train in Chapter 10?
(a) Ohio.
(b) Texas.
(c) Illinois.
(d) Colorado.

4. The narrator claims that by his third morning in New York, he secured a job doing what in Chapter 8?
(a) Cleaning stables.
(b) Framing houses.
(c) Rolling cigars.
(d) Washing windows.

5. To what does the narrator compare a massive iceberg viewed from the ship in Chapter 9?
(a) A mesa.
(b) A mountain.
(c) An opal.
(d) A diamond.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does the race discussion boil down to an argument between in the smoking train car in Chapter 10?

2. What does the narrator buy for the women who give him French lessons at the café in Chapter 9?

3. According to the narrator in Chapter 9, “The Londoner seems to think that Americans are people whose only claim to be classed as civilized is that they have” what?

4. Why is the narrator returning to New York in the beginning of Chapter 6?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does the narrator get in exchange for his work for the millionaire in Europe? What are his impressions of the continent?

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

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

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

6. With whom does the narrator form a friendship on the ship to Boston in Chapter 10? What do they discuss?

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

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

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

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

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