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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. To whom does the narrator say he became inseparable in school in Chapter 2?
(a) Red Head.
(b) Joel Chandler Harris.
(c) The Girl.
(d) Shiny.

3. The narrator of the novel was born a few years after the close of what war?
(a) The War of 1812.
(b) The Civil War.
(c) World War I.
(d) World War II.

4. What does the narrator describe under the shed in the backyard of his childhood home in Chapter 1?
(a) Bicycles.
(b) Animal feed.
(c) Wooden wash-tubs.
(d) Shovel and plow.

5. 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) Newspaper.
(c) Slippers.
(d) Slices of bread with butter.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

3. What does the narrator say he had a particular fondness for in his childhood in Chapter 1?

4. With what does the narrator describe having been allowed to play by the tall man with the small, dark moustache in Chapter 1?

5. The narrator’s mother supported herself and her son by what means, according to the narrator in Chapter 1?

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