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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the man that the narrator befriends on the ship ask him to stop for two or three days in Chapter 10?
(a) Boston.
(b) Miami.
(c) Atlanta.
(d) Washington, D.C.

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

3. The narrator claims that by his third morning in New York, he secured a job doing what in Chapter 8?
(a) Washing windows.
(b) Cleaning stables.
(c) Framing houses.
(d) Rolling cigars.

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

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

6. The narrator compares New York City to a great _________ at the gate of the country in Chapter 6?
(a) Serpent.
(b) Devil.
(c) Troll.
(d) Witch.

7. Where does the narrator go after leaving Nashville in Chapter 10?
(a) New York City.
(b) Atlanta.
(c) Richmond.
(d) Denver.

8. The narrator claims that he did not feel at ease until the ship was where in Chapter 9?
(a) Barcelona.
(b) Reykjavik.
(c) Boston.
(d) Out of the New York Harbor.

9. The Union soldier says in Chapter 10, “After all, racial supremacy is merely a matter of” what?
(a) “Dates in history.”
(b) “Political power.”
(c) “Current events.”
(d) “Morality.”

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

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

12. 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) 4-5 days.
(b) 1-2 days.
(c) 3-4 days.
(d) 2-3 days.

13. The man that the narrator befriends on the ship in Chapter 10 studied at what university?
(a) Fisk University.
(b) Howard University.
(c) The University of Florida.
(d) The University of Georgia.

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

15. The narrator quotes an African American man as once having said, “"It's no disgrace to be black, but it's often very” what?
(a) Enlightening.
(b) Aggravating.
(c) Inconvenient.
(d) Humbling.

Short Answer Questions

1. What genre of music does the narrator first hear at the “Club” in Chapter 6?

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

3. 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”?

4. The narrator states that he is finally able to shake off his gloom when the ship reaches what harbor in Chapter 9?

5. Where does the narrator describe spending many evenings and where “music there made [him] strangely reminiscent of my life in Connecticut” in Chapter 9?

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