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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator describe surrounding the flowers in the front yard of his childhood home in Chapter 1?
(a) Large rocks.
(b) Cherry trees.
(c) Glass bottles.
(d) A white picket fence.

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

3. 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) “Bad memories.”
(c) “A die.”
(d) “Extreme pressure.”

4. 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) 2 years.
(c) 1 year.
(d) 9 moths.

5. The narrator of the novel was born in a small town in what state?
(a) Kansas.
(b) Minnesota.
(c) Georgia.
(d) New Mexico.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom does the narrator claim to have developed a “sympathetic bond” with at school in Chapter 2?

2. Whom does the narrator describe as “a bright young fellow who was himself a student” that he talks with on the train ride in Chapter 4?

3. What present does the narrator describe receiving from his father in Chapter 3?

4. What term from the book refers to “the boys who pulled the long stems from the tobacco leaves”?

5. The narrator says in Chapter 5 that he picked up the cigar-maker’s habit of riding around in what on Sunday afternoons?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the first Pullman car porter described by the narrator? Where does the narrator meet him?

2. What is early education like for the narrator? When does he enter public school and how is this setting described?

3. What event takes place informing the narrator of his ethnic heritage in his early years? How does he react to the information?

4. Where does the narrator begin working in Jacksonville in Chapter 5?

5. When and where was the author of the book born and raised? How are his parents described?

6. What advice is the narrator given after his money is stolen in Chapter 4? Who helps him out?

7. Into what classes does the narrator categorize African Americans in Chapter 5?

8. Where did James Weldon Johnson attend university? How is this institution described?

9. How are the author’s teenage years described? For whom did he work and where?

10. How is the early childhood of the narrator described in Chapter 1? Where does he live?

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