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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 is the stoker's job?
(a) He carries passenger luggage.
(b) He assists the head chef.
(c) He tends the fire that powers the ship.
(d) He makes sure the ship is on course.

2. What happens as Karl steps out onto the stairs leading into the smaller boat that will take him to shore?
(a) He shouts with joy.
(b) He stumbles and almost falls.
(c) He bursts into tears.
(d) He sees a drowned rat.

3. How does Karl's mood change during dinner at the Pollunder's house?
(a) He feels more and more confused and begins to feel as if he is watching a play.
(b) He grows progressively more uncomfortable and distressed.
(c) His pleasure at the fine food and surroundings is broken by Klara's strange mood.
(d) His initial bad mood is lightened by Klara's jokes and teasing.

4. Although Karl thinks that Jakob indulges him generously, what does the narrative imply is true about Jakob's behavior toward Karl?
(a) Jakob is stern with Karl because he sees Karl's potential.
(b) Jakob intends to make Karl a partner in his buisness.
(c) Jakob is using Karl to heal the rift between himself and Karl's mother.
(d) Jakob is needlessly distant and controlling toward Karl.

5. What does Jakob insist that Karl be home in the morning in time to do?
(a) Attend his music lesson.
(b) Attend his riding lesson.
(c) Attend his English lesson.
(d) Attend his etiquette lesson.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many offices does Jakob keep in the building he lives in?

2. What has the servant woman named the child that she alleges Karl fathered?

3. What is the first thing Green discusses with the group during dinner at the Pollunder house?

4. In the office, to whom does Karl show his passport?

5. According to the stoker, when is it most likely that a person would become a stoker?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Karl spend his time during his first weeks in New York?

2. What does the letter from Jakob to Karl say?

3. What bizarre interaction does Karl have with Klara after dinner?

4. How does Green's intervention keep Karl from getting back to New York on the same night he left?

5. What claims does the stoker make against Schubal?

6. What unexpected news does Klara give her father when he and Karl arrive at the Pollunder home, and how does Pollunder react?

7. What is so fascinating to Karl about the desk in his room?

8. Why is Karl on the ship?

9. What does Karl imagine about his parents when he is in the office with the stoker?

10. What conclusions has Karl already come to about America when the second chapter opens, and why?

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