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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3: Chapter IV, "The March to Ramses," and Chapter V, "At the Occidental Hotel".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Karl so useful to Therese when she is running errands in the city?
(a) He is more confident in dealing with the businesses they enter.
(b) He can protect her from the advances of men in the city.
(c) He has a much better sense of direction than Therese does.
(d) He is able to carry much heavier loads than she can.

2. According to the stoker, when is it most likely that a person would become a stoker?
(a) When the person accidentally meets someone who is already a stoker.
(b) When the person has not really made up their mind about taking the job yet.
(c) When the person is down on their luck and has run out of options.
(d) When the person has been sent away from home all by themselves.

3. What does Klara say she would like Karl to do for her?
(a) Teach her German.
(b) Teach her jujitsu.
(c) Pass a message to Jakob.
(d) Play some music.

4. When Karl is wandering through the vast Pollunder house, what is he reminded of?
(a) The many floors of offices in his uncle's building.
(b) The sprawling interior of the ship he traveled to America on.
(c) Families on the east side of the city who live crowded together in one room.
(d) The cozy warmth of his parents' home in Germany.

5. What does Therese confide in Karl that she asks him to keep secret from the head cook?
(a) That she really only enjoys her job when she is on errands in the city.
(b) She intends to leave the Occidental Hotel as soon as she finds another job.
(c) She thinks it might be better if she went back to working in the kitchen.
(d) The head cook reminds her of her deceased mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What instrument does Karl play?

2. When Schubal enters the office, what is he wearing?

3. What is Karl eating at the end of Chapter V, "At the Occidental Hotel"?

4. When Karl imagines that his visit to the Pollunders might become "the turning point in his relationship with his uncle," what techniques are being used (57)?

5. What does the civilian man with the bamboo stick keep looking at and then looking at Karl?

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