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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 say he had a particular fondness for in his childhood in Chapter 1?
(a) Black keys.
(b) Slidebars.
(c) White keys.
(d) Pedals.

2. Within how much time is the narrator able to speak Spanish like a native after working at the factory in Chapter 5?
(a) 1 year.
(b) 9 moths.
(c) 2 years.
(d) 6 months.

3. Who does the narrator say stood at the head of his list of heroes for a long time in Chapter 2?
(a) Christopher Columbus.
(b) King David.
(c) Charles Darwin.
(d) Jesus.

4. What is the Pullman car porter wearing when the narrator encounters him at a ball in Chapter 5?
(a) The narrator’s hat.
(b) The narrator’s tie.
(c) The narrator’s shoes.
(d) The narrator’s jacket.

5. 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) Silence.
(c) Nature.
(d) Music.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. All of the fellow boarders at the boarding house where the narrator stays in Chapter 5 work as what?

3. The narrator’s landlady tells him that the average price for a music teacher within the African American community is how much in Chapter 5?

4. What does the narrator have for breakfast that is described as “boiled to the consistency where it could be eaten with a fork” in Chapter 4?

5. What does the narrator say he has never been good at because his “ideas of interpretation were always too strongly individual”?

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