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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) Thought.
(b) Music.
(c) Silence.
(d) Nature.

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

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

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

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. How much money does the narrator put in his trunk while his fellow roommates sleep in Chapter 4?

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

3. What does the narrator describe surrounding the flowers in the front yard of his childhood home in Chapter 1?

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

5. 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?

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