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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is stolen along with the narrator’s money from his trunk in Chapter 4?
(a) A necktie.
(b) A hat.
(c) A pair of shoes.
(d) A jacket.

2. By what age could the narrator play by ear all of the hymns and songs his mother knew?
(a) 4.
(b) 15.
(c) 12.
(d) 7.

3. The narrator states in Chapter 2 of his mother that he did not remember “ever having seen her with a book in her hand, with the exception of” what?
(a) The Episcopal Prayer-book.
(b) The Torah.
(c) The Koran.
(d) The Bible.

4. To what educational institution is the narrator headed in the beginning of Chapter 4?
(a) Boston University.
(b) Atlanta University.
(c) Dallas University.
(d) New York University.

5. What nickname does the narrator give to the boy in his class whose face he describes as “black as night, but shone as though it was polished” in Chapter 1?
(a) Shiny.
(b) Onyx.
(c) Red head.
(d) Blue Eyes.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator say he changed his attitudes toward his peers after the discovery that he was biracial?

2. The narrator states in Chapter 2, “In the life of every one there is a limited number of unhappy experiences which are not written upon the memory, but stamped there with” what?

3. What does the narrator say he has never been good at because his “ideas of interpretation were always too strongly individual”?

4. To whom does the narrator claim to have developed a “sympathetic bond” with at school in Chapter 2?

5. Whose schoolwork did the narrator largely complete for him, as described in Chapter 2?

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