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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the narrator in Chapter 2, the two immediate results of his “forced loneliness” were finding company in books and greater pleasure in what?
(a) Silence.
(b) Nature.
(c) Thought.
(d) Music.

2. Whose schoolwork did the narrator largely complete for him, as described in Chapter 2?
(a) Walter's.
(b) The Girl's.
(c) Red Head’s.
(d) Shiny's.

3. 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.

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

5. What is the nickname of the fourteen-year-old boy that the narrator befriends in Chapter 1?
(a) Red Head.
(b) Black hair.
(c) Blue foot.
(d) Green eyes.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator of the novel was born a few years after the close of what war?

2. The narrator claims in Chapter 1, “As I look back now I can see that I was a perfect little” what?

3. How much do the narrator and his companion each pay the waiter at the restaurant where they eat in Chapter 4?

4. 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?

5. The narrator says that when he was shown about the grounds of the university, he was especially interested in what building in Chapter 4?

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