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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Within how much time is the narrator able to speak Spanish like a native after working at the factory in Chapter 5?
(a) 6 months.
(b) 1 year.
(c) 2 years.
(d) 9 moths.

2. Who wrote the Christian allegory The Pilgrim's Progress from This World to That Which Is to Come?
(a) Mason Williams.
(b) John Bunyan.
(c) Elliot Larkin.
(d) Jacob Smith.

3. The landlord of the boarding house in Chapter 5 makes approximately how many cigars per day?
(a) 100.
(b) 220.
(c) 60.
(d) 140.

4. It is the narrator’s duty to bring what to the tall man with the small, dark moustache when he visits in Chapter 1?
(a) Newspaper.
(b) Slices of bread with butter.
(c) Slippers.
(d) A glass of water.

5. Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
(a) Louisa May Alcott.
(b) Frederick Douglass.
(c) Harriet Beecher Stowe.
(d) Mark Twain.

6. What is the nickname of the fourteen-year-old boy that the narrator befriends in Chapter 1?
(a) Blue foot.
(b) Green eyes.
(c) Red Head.
(d) Black hair.

7. The narrator states in Chapter 5, “I am sure it would be safe to wager that no group of Southern white men could get together and talk for sixty minutes without bringing up” what?
(a) The weather.
(b) Their children.
(c) Women.
(d) The race question.

8. What nickname does the narrator give to the boy in his class whose face he describes as “black as night, but shone as though it was polished” in Chapter 1?
(a) Shiny.
(b) Red head.
(c) Onyx.
(d) Blue Eyes.

9. What does the narrator describe under the shed in the backyard of his childhood home in Chapter 1?
(a) Bicycles.
(b) Wooden wash-tubs.
(c) Animal feed.
(d) Shovel and plow.

10. What book does the narrator describe as having “used to lie in splendid neglect on the center table in our little parlor” in Chapter 2?
(a) The Bible.
(b) The Torah.
(c) The Korah.
(d) The Episcopal Prayer-book.

11. What is the Pullman car porter wearing when the narrator encounters him at a ball in Chapter 5?
(a) The narrator’s hat.
(b) The narrator’s tie.
(c) The narrator’s jacket.
(d) The narrator’s shoes.

12. In Chapter 1, the narrator states that he is led to reveal his secret by the same impulse as what?
(a) “The unfound-out criminal.”
(b) “The doctor telling his patient he’ll die.”
(c) “A blind rat.”
(d) “A nun lost in the woods.”

13. The narrator states in Chapter 2, “In the life of every one there is a limited number of unhappy experiences which are not written upon the memory, but stamped there with” what?
(a) “Vivid detail.”
(b) “Extreme pressure.”
(c) “Bad memories.”
(d) “A die.”

14. The narrator’s landlady tells him that the average price for a music teacher within the African American community is how much in Chapter 5?
(a) $0.75.
(b) $0.25.
(c) $0.40.
(d) $0.65.

15. Who shows the narrator to a boarding house in the beginning of Chapter 5?
(a) A minister.
(b) A policeman.
(c) A judge.
(d) A butcher.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is stolen along with the narrator’s money from his trunk in Chapter 4?

2. How old is the narrator when his mother decides to enter him into public school?

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

4. All of the fellow boarders at the boarding house where the narrator stays in Chapter 5 work as what?

5. Whose schoolwork did the narrator largely complete for him, as described in Chapter 2?

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