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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the narrator in Chapter 2, the two immediate results of his “forced loneliness” were finding company in books and greater pleasure in what?
(a) Thought.
(b) Silence.
(c) Music.
(d) Nature.

2. All of the fellow boarders at the boarding house where the narrator stays in Chapter 5 work as what?
(a) Blacksmiths.
(b) Cigar makers.
(c) Farmhands.
(d) Basket weavers.

3. The narrator claims in Chapter 1, “As I look back now I can see that I was a perfect little” what?
(a) Patsy.
(b) Engineer.
(c) Aristocrat.
(d) Citizen.

4. Within how much time is the narrator accounted the fastest at pulling the long stems from tobacco leaves at the factory in Chapter 5?
(a) 1 month.
(b) 4 days.
(c) 2 weeks.
(d) 10 days.

5. 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 coloured man.”
(b) “Society.”
(c) “A slave.”
(d) “An animal.”

6. Whose schoolwork did the narrator largely complete for him, as described in Chapter 2?
(a) The Girl's.
(b) Shiny's.
(c) Red Head’s.
(d) Walter's.

7. The narrator says that when he was shown about the grounds of the university, he was especially interested in what building in Chapter 4?
(a) The library.
(b) The gymnasium.
(c) The mathematics building.
(d) The industrial building.

8. 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 shoes.
(c) The narrator’s tie.
(d) The narrator’s jacket.

9. The narrator of the novel was born a few years after the close of what war?
(a) World War II.
(b) World War I.
(c) The Civil War.
(d) The War of 1812.

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

11. In Chapter 5, the narrator compares the black man and his fight to what bearing the “fury of the storm”?
(a) “The bristlecone pine tree.”
(b) “The cedar tree.”
(c) “The redwood tree.”
(d) “The willow tree.”

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

13. The porter tells the narrator that he has not had how many hours of sleep since he left Jersey City in Chapter 4?
(a) 12.
(b) 6.
(c) 10.
(d) 3.

14. 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) Collard greens.
(b) Crawfish.
(c) Hominy.
(d) Chitlins.

15. How much money per week is the room that the narrator rents at the boarding house in the beginning of Chapter 5?
(a) $7.95.
(b) $2.00.
(c) $5.75.
(d) $3.50.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the porter say he will return to school in the winter in Chapter 4?

2. How much money per week does the narrator earn as the “reader” at the cigar factory in Chapter 5?

3. 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?

4. 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?

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

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