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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator say he has never been good at because his “ideas of interpretation were always too strongly individual”?
(a) Running a business.
(b) Composing music.
(c) An accompanist.
(d) Interpreting the Bible.

2. Where is the narrator headed by ship in the beginning of Chapter 10?
(a) Chicago.
(b) Columbus.
(c) Boston.
(d) Detroit.

3. What character in the book is killed at the end of Chapter 8?
(a) The Millionaire.
(b) The Widow.
(c) The Texan.
(d) The Jew.

4. The narrator states in Chapter 10, “It is the spirit of the South to defend everything belonging to it. The North is too” what “for such a spirit”?
(a) “Rich and enlightened.”
(b) “Proper and religious.”
(c) “Civilized and educated.”
(d) “Cosmopolitan and tolerant.”

5. How long do the narrator and the millionaire stay in Paris in Chapter 9?
(a) 6-7 days.
(b) 2-3 days.
(c) 27-28 weeks.
(d) 14-15 months.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does the race discussion boil down to an argument between in the smoking train car in Chapter 10?

2. 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?

3. 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?

4. How much do the narrator and his companion each pay the waiter at the restaurant where they eat in Chapter 4?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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