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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who wrote the Christian allegory The Pilgrim's Progress from This World to That Which Is to Come?
(a) John Bunyan.
(b) Mason Williams.
(c) Elliot Larkin.
(d) Jacob Smith.

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

4. At what institution does the narrator spend a day in Nashville in Chapter 10?
(a) Howard University.
(b) The University of Tennessee.
(c) Nashville State University.
(d) Fisk University.

5. 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) “White man.”
(b) “Indian.”
(c) “Animals.”
(d) “Devil.”

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the narrator headed by ship in the beginning of Chapter 10?

2. The narrator claims that by his third morning in New York, he secured a job doing what in Chapter 8?

3. The narrator is earning how much money per week after working at the cigar factory for three months in Chapter 5?

4. At what hotel do the narrator and the millionaire stay in Paris in Chapter 9?

5. How much money per week is the room that the narrator rents at the boarding house in the beginning of Chapter 5?

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