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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1-3.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who does the narrator say stood at the head of his list of heroes for a long time in Chapter 2?
(a) King David.
(b) Charles Darwin.
(c) Jesus.
(d) Christopher Columbus.

3. 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) Blue Eyes.
(c) Red head.
(d) Onyx.

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

5. What does the narrator describe growing along the edge of the fence by the vegetable garden in Chapter 1?
(a) Huckleberries.
(b) Tomatoes.
(c) Blackberries.
(d) Potatoes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator describe under the shed in the backyard of his childhood home in Chapter 1?

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

3. The narrator says in Chapter 1 that he feels “a sort of diabolical desire to gather up all the little tragedies” of his life and turn them into what?

4. What book does the narrator describe as having “used to lie in splendid neglect on the center table in our little parlor” in Chapter 2?

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?

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