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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 1, the narrator states that he is led to reveal his secret by the same impulse as what?
(a) “The doctor telling his patient he’ll die.”
(b) “A blind rat.”
(c) “The unfound-out criminal.”
(d) “A nun lost in the woods.”

2. It is the narrator’s duty to bring what to the tall man with the small, dark moustache when he visits in Chapter 1?
(a) Newspaper.
(b) Slippers.
(c) A glass of water.
(d) Slices of bread with butter.

3. In describing New York, the narrator states, “To some natures this stimulant of life in a great city becomes a thing as binding and necessary as” being addicted to what substance?
(a) Opium.
(b) Marijuana.
(c) Tobacco.
(d) Whiskey.

4. How old is the narrator when his mother decides to enter him into public school?
(a) 11.
(b) 15.
(c) 9.
(d) 5.

5. The porter tells the narrator that he has not had how many hours of sleep since he left Jersey City in Chapter 4?
(a) 6.
(b) 12.
(c) 10.
(d) 3.

Short Answer Questions

1. The landlady and her husband at the boarding house tell the narrator that the big winter hotels would not open within how much time in the beginning of Chapter 5?

2. What does the narrator have for breakfast that is described as “so light and flaky that a fellow with any appetite at all would have no difficulty in disposing of eight or ten” in Chapter 4?

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

4. What is the nickname of the fourteen-year-old boy that the narrator befriends in Chapter 1?

5. The narrator states in Chapter 2 that “a true artist can no more play upon the piano or violin without putting his whole body in accord with the emotions he is striving to express than a swallow can” do what?

(see the answer key)

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