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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. Whose love from the opera Faust does the narrator describe as a mockery in Chapter 9?
(a) Valentine's.
(b) Méphistophélès’s.
(c) Marguerite’s.
(d) Siébel’s.

2. What word from Chapter 7 means a frequent visitor to a place?
(a) Commoner.
(b) Guest.
(c) Truant.
(d) Habitué.

3. The narrator states that he is finally able to shake off his gloom when the ship reaches what harbor in Chapter 9?
(a) Rotterdam.
(b) Hamburg.
(c) Bergen.
(d) Havre.

4. The narrator claims that he did not feel at ease until the ship was where in Chapter 9?
(a) Boston.
(b) Out of the New York Harbor.
(c) Reykjavik.
(d) Barcelona.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. For how long does the narrator stay in Washington, D.C. in Chapter 10?

2. 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”?

3. How much money does the narrator say that the most popular African American jockey of the day earns per year in Chapter 7?

4. The man that the narrator befriends on the ship in Chapter 10 has what profession?

5. Where does the man that the narrator befriends on the ship ask him to stop for two or three days in Chapter 10?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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