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

2. 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?
(a) Pancakes.
(b) Blueberry muffins.
(c) Biscuits.
(d) Waffles.

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

4. The narrator of the novel was born in a small town in what state?
(a) Kansas.
(b) Georgia.
(c) Minnesota.
(d) New Mexico.

5. What city does the narrator describe as “a big, dull, red town” in Chapter 4?
(a) Knoxville.
(b) Biloxi.
(c) Atlanta.
(d) Miami.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many students does the narrator say are at the university in Chapter 4?

2. 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?

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

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

5. Where does the narrator move with his mother in Chapter 1?

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