View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator buy for the women who give him French lessons at the café in Chapter 9?
(a) Wine and cheese.
(b) Beer and cigarettes.
(c) Croissants and coffee.
(d) Coffee and cake.

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) A glass of water.
(b) Slices of bread with butter.
(c) Newspaper.
(d) Slippers.

3. How much money per week does the narrator earn as the “reader” at the cigar factory in Chapter 5?
(a) $25.
(b) $8.
(c) $10.
(d) $15.

4. At what time do the narrator and the millionaire arrive at Saint Lazare in Chapter 9?
(a) 8:45 a.m.
(b) 4:00 p.m.
(c) 2:30 a.m.
(d) 9:15 p.m.

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?
(a) “Sing without melody.”
(b) “Fly without being graceful.”
(c) “Sing without being loud.”
(d) “Eat without being vulnerable.”

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is the narrator when his mother decides to enter him into public school?

2. The man that the narrator befriends on the ship in Chapter 10 studied at what university?

3. Where does the narrator describe spending many evenings and where “music there made [him] strangely reminiscent of my life in Connecticut” in Chapter 9?

4. How does the narrator describe the chairs in the parlor at the rooming house where he arrives in the beginning of Chapter 5?

5. The narrator states in Chapter 9 that he has become quite friendly with a “stolid, slow-witted fellow” from where?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 292 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample