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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whom does the narrator describe as “a bright young fellow who was himself a student” that he talks with on the train ride in Chapter 4?
(a) A breeder.
(b) A Pullman car porter.
(c) A shoe shiner.
(d) A horse breeder.

2. How does the narrator say he changed his attitudes toward his peers after the discovery that he was biracial?
(a) He became more reserved.
(b) He became more outspoken.
(c) He became more judgmental.
(d) He became more sympathetic.

3. Where does the porter say he will return to school in the winter in Chapter 4?
(a) Raleigh.
(b) Nashville.
(c) Birmingham.
(d) Atlanta.

4. The landlady and her husband at the boarding house tell the narrator that the big winter hotels would not open within how much time in the beginning of Chapter 5?
(a) 9 months.
(b) 2 months.
(c) 3 weeks.
(d) 1 year.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the nickname of the fourteen-year-old boy that the narrator befriends in Chapter 1?

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

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

4. What term from the book refers to “the boys who pulled the long stems from the tobacco leaves”?

5. The narrator says in Chapter 1 that he feels “a sort of diabolical desire to gather up all the little tragedies” of his life and turn them into what?

(see the answer key)

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