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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What present does the narrator describe receiving from his father in Chapter 3?
(a) A watch.
(b) A fishing rod.
(c) A bicycle.
(d) A piano.

3. The narrator says in Chapter 4, “I have since learned that this ability to laugh heartily is, in part, the salvation of the American Negro; it does much to keep him from going the way of the” what?
(a) “White man.”
(b) “Devil.”
(c) “Animals.”
(d) “Indian.”

4. How old does the narrator say he was when he “appeared on a program with a number of adults at an entertainment given for some charitable purpose, and carried off the honors” in Chapter 2?
(a) 17.
(b) 12.
(c) 8.
(d) 14.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The husband of the woman who runs the boarding house is from where in Chapter 5?

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

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?

4. What is the nickname of the fourteen-year-old boy that the narrator befriends 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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