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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator says in Chapter 5 that he picked up the cigar-maker’s habit of riding around in what on Sunday afternoons?
(a) A sailboat.
(b) A hack.
(c) A horse cart.
(d) A canoe.

2. The “white-mustached, well dressed man” that the narrator encounters on the train in Chapter 10 fought in what war?
(a) World War I.
(b) The Civil War.
(c) The Revolutionary War.
(d) The War of 1812.

3. The narrator describes the poker players as practicing what sort of politeness for each other in Chapter 6?
(a) Orwellian.
(b) Aristotelian.
(c) Platonic.
(d) Chesterfieldian.

4. How much money per week does the narrator earn as the “reader” at the cigar factory in Chapter 5?
(a) $8.
(b) $25.
(c) $10.
(d) $15.

5. What dice game is being played in the back room at the refurbished bar and gambling house that the narrator attends in Chapter 6?
(a) Shoot the Moon.
(b) Backgammon.
(c) Yahtzee.
(d) Craps.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do the narrator and four of his companions go to seek a lodging-house after arriving in New York in Chapter 6?

2. The narrator claims in Chapter 1, “As I look back now I can see that I was a perfect little” what?

3. When was James Weldon Johnson born?

4. Where do the narrator and the millionaire walk and sit in chairs along the sidewalk in Chapter 9?

5. In what amount of time does the narrator dispose of his equity for more than double his investment in the tenement-house in Chapter 11?

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