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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. The narrator claims that by his third morning in New York, he secured a job doing what in Chapter 8?
(a) Washing windows.
(b) Rolling cigars.
(c) Framing houses.
(d) Cleaning stables.
2. What does the narrator have for breakfast that is described as “boiled to the consistency where it could be eaten with a fork” in Chapter 4?
(a) Chitlins.
(b) Hominy.
(c) Collard greens.
(d) Crawfish.
3. Whose love from the opera Faust does the narrator describe as a mockery in Chapter 9?
(a) Siébel’s.
(b) Méphistophélès’s.
(c) Valentine's.
(d) Marguerite’s.
4. The narrator states in Chapter 2, “And this is the dwarfing, warping, distorting influence which operates upon each colored man in the United States. He is forced to take his outlook on all things, not from the viewpoint of a citizen, or a man, nor even a human being, but from the viewpoint of” what?
(a) “A slave.”
(b) “An animal.”
(c) “A coloured man.”
(d) “Society.”
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) “Eat without being vulnerable.”
(b) “Sing without being loud.”
(c) “Fly without being graceful.”
(d) “Sing without melody.”
Short Answer Questions
1. Where is the “slender be-spectacled young man” from that the narrator encounters on the train in Chapter 10?
2. 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?
3. What dice game is being played in the back room at the refurbished bar and gambling house that the narrator attends in Chapter 6?
4. The narrator claims in Chapter 8 that he “used to play whose "Wedding March" in a manner that never failed to arouse enthusiasm among the patrons of the "Club”?
5. According to the author in Chapter 10, “Southerners are very much like” who “in that they must talk”?
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