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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator’s companion tells him in Chapter 4 that all of the “respectable coloured people” eat where?
(a) At the race track.
(b) At home.
(c) At the diner.
(d) At the church.

2. The narrator says in Chapter 4, “I have since learned that this ability to laugh heartily is, in part, the salvation of the American Negro; it does much to keep him from going the way of the” what?
(a) “Animals.”
(b) “Devil.”
(c) “White man.”
(d) “Indian.”

3. What does the narrator say he has never been good at because his “ideas of interpretation were always too strongly individual”?
(a) An accompanist.
(b) Running a business.
(c) Interpreting the Bible.
(d) Composing music.

4. 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 Koran.
(b) The Bible.
(c) The Episcopal Prayer-book.
(d) The Torah.

5. What does the narrator describe surrounding the flowers in the front yard of his childhood home in Chapter 1?
(a) Cherry trees.
(b) Glass bottles.
(c) Large rocks.
(d) A white picket fence.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What does the narrator have for breakfast that is described as “boiled to the consistency where it could be eaten with a fork” in Chapter 4?

3. Whom does the narrator describe as “a bright young fellow who was himself a student” that he talks with on the train ride in Chapter 4?

4. The narrator states in the beginning of Chapter 4 that the farther he got below __________, the more disappointed he became with the appearance of the country?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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