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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The landlord of the boarding house in Chapter 5 makes approximately how many cigars per day?
(a) 220.
(b) 140.
(c) 60.
(d) 100.

2. With what does the narrator describe having been allowed to play by the tall man with the small, dark moustache in Chapter 1?
(a) A puppy.
(b) A croquet set.
(c) A gold pocket watch.
(d) A 100-year-old sword.

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

4. Where does the narrator move with his mother in Chapter 1?
(a) Connecticut.
(b) Ohio.
(c) Main.
(d) Georgia.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator describe the chairs in the parlor at the rooming house where he arrives in the beginning of Chapter 5?

2. What is the Pullman car porter wearing when the narrator encounters him at a ball in Chapter 5?

3. What does the tall man with the small, dark moustache drill a hole through in Chapter 1 as the narrator watches?

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

5. The narrator says in Chapter 5 that he picked up the cigar-maker’s habit of riding around in what on Sunday afternoons?

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