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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do the narrator and the millionaire walk and sit in chairs along the sidewalk in Chapter 9?
(a) The Hotel Continental.
(b) The Grand Opra.
(c) The Champs Elysees.
(d) The Grand Boulevards.

2. At what hotel do the narrator and the millionaire stay in Paris in Chapter 9?
(a) The Grand Opera.
(b) The Grand Boulevards.
(c) The Hotel Continental.
(d) The Champs Elysees.

3. What does the narrator claim the men gambling in the dice room are wearing in Chapter 6?
(a) Linen dusters.
(b) Sombreros.
(c) Suits.
(d) Overalls.

4. What is a term used by the narrator to refer to a person who is born from one white parent and one black parent?
(a) Mulatto.
(b) Sicilian.
(c) Latino.
(d) Kiwi.

5. How much do the narrator and his companion each pay the waiter at the restaurant where they eat in Chapter 4?
(a) 50 cents.
(b) 75 cents.
(c) 20 cents.
(d) 10 cents.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator says in Chapter 4, “I have since learned that this ability to laugh heartily is, in part, the salvation of the American Negro; it does much to keep him from going the way of the” what?

2. In Chapter 1, the narrator states that he is led to reveal his secret by the same impulse as what?

3. The narrator describes the poker players as practicing what sort of politeness for each other in Chapter 6?

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

5. The narrator states in the beginning of Chapter 4 that the farther he got below __________, the more disappointed he became with the appearance of the country?

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