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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For how long does the narrator stay in Washington, D.C. in Chapter 10?
(a) 4-5 days.
(b) 4-5 weeks.
(c) 2-3 weeks.
(d) 9-10 days.

2. Why is the narrator returning to New York in the beginning of Chapter 6?
(a) The meet an old friend.
(b) The World's Fair.
(c) A relative has just died.
(d) The cigar factory shut down.

3. What is a term used by the narrator to refer to a person who is born from one white parent and one black parent?
(a) Latino.
(b) Kiwi.
(c) Sicilian.
(d) Mulatto.

4. According to the narrator, who claim made the Jubilee songs public?
(a) Red Head.
(b) Shiny.
(c) The Millionaire.
(d) The Fisk singers.

5. Where do the narrator and the millionaire walk and sit in chairs along the sidewalk in Chapter 9?
(a) The Hotel Continental.
(b) The Grand Opra.
(c) The Grand Boulevards.
(d) The Champs Elysees.

6. To what does the narrator compare a massive iceberg viewed from the ship in Chapter 9?
(a) An opal.
(b) A diamond.
(c) A mesa.
(d) A mountain.

7. According to the author in Chapter 10, “Southerners are very much like” who “in that they must talk”?
(a) Russians.
(b) Spaniards.
(c) Frenchmen.
(d) Englishmen.

8. What is not allowed at the “Club,” according to the narrator in Chapter 7?
(a) Solicitation.
(b) Gambling.
(c) Loitering.
(d) Women.

9. What adjective from Chapter 6 means capable of or successful in producing an intended result?
(a) Efficacious.
(b) Platonic.
(c) Indigenous.
(d) Erroneous.

10. Where is the “tall, rawboned, red-faced man” from that the narrator encounters on the train in Chapter 10?
(a) Illinois.
(b) Texas.
(c) Ohio.
(d) Colorado.

11. The narrator’s harrowed state of mind and seasickness keeps him miserable on the ship for how long before it begins to lift in Chapter 9?
(a) 1-2 days.
(b) 4-5 days.
(c) 2-3 days.
(d) 3-4 days.

12. What word does the narrator use in Chapter 6 meaning anything that transforms, purifies, or refines?
(a) Eclipse.
(b) Tangible.
(c) Alembic.
(d) Corrosive.

13. At what institution does the narrator spend a day in Nashville in Chapter 10?
(a) Fisk University.
(b) The University of Tennessee.
(c) Howard University.
(d) Nashville State University.

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

15. Who is described as was “fierce, eloquent and profane in his argument and, in a lower sense, there was a direct logic in what he said, which was convincing” in Chapter 10?
(a) Shiny.
(b) The Jew.
(c) The Texan.
(d) The Union soldier.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Texan take out and drink during the racial discussion in the train car in Chapter 10?

2. How much money does the narrator lose on his second trip to the gambling house in Chapter 8?

3. What city does the narrator compare to “a beauty spot on the face of the earth” in Chapter 9?

4. The Union soldier says in Chapter 10, “After all, racial supremacy is merely a matter of” what?

5. What term is used by some historians to designate the Germanic tribes who invaded and settled the south and east of Britain beginning in the early 5th century?

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