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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Whose schoolwork did the narrator largely complete for him, as described in Chapter 2?
(a) The Girl's.
(b) Shiny's.
(c) Walter's.
(d) Red Head’s.

5. The narrator is earning how much money per week after working at the cigar factory for three months in Chapter 5?
(a) $2.
(b) $10.
(c) $7.
(d) $4.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the narrator have for breakfast that is described as “so light and flaky that a fellow with any appetite at all would have no difficulty in disposing of eight or ten” in Chapter 4?

3. 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?

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

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

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