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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who shows the narrator to a boarding house in the beginning of Chapter 5?
(a) A minister.
(b) A judge.
(c) A policeman.
(d) A butcher.

2. In Chapter 5, the narrator compares the black man and his fight to what bearing the “fury of the storm”?
(a) “The cedar tree.”
(b) “The willow tree.”
(c) “The redwood tree.”
(d) “The bristlecone pine tree.”

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

4. What term from Chapter 5 refers to a government led by a committee of military leaders?
(a) Tribunal.
(b) Revolution.
(c) Junta.
(d) Utopia.

5. The narrator states in Chapter 2 of his mother that he did not remember “ever having seen her with a book in her hand, with the exception of” what?
(a) The Bible.
(b) The Koran.
(c) The Torah.
(d) The Episcopal Prayer-book.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say he had a particular fondness for in his childhood in Chapter 1?

2. To what educational institution is the narrator headed in the beginning of Chapter 4?

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

4. Who wrote the Christian allegory The Pilgrim's Progress from This World to That Which Is to Come?

5. How does the narrator say he changed his attitudes toward his peers after the discovery that he was biracial?

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