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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. Of what country does the narrator say his landlord was Prime Minister?
(a) China.
(b) India.
(c) Turkey.
(d) Persia.

2. Where is the narrator staying at the beginning of Part Two?
(a) Near the harbour.
(b) In an abandoned tinsmith's workshop.
(c) In an abandoned blacksmith's workshop.
(d) With an elderly aunt.

3. What does the narrator find in his pawned waistcoat pocket?
(a) An address.
(b) Money.
(c) Pawnshop tickets.
(d) An invitation.

4. What is the old man's profession?
(a) A welt binder.
(b) A tanner.
(c) A builder.
(d) A blacksmith.

5. What of the narrator's is whipped by the hayracks?
(a) His legs.
(b) His bundle.
(c) His hat.
(d) His back.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of job opening does the narrator see?

2. What item of clothing does the narrator pawn?

3. What does the waitress offer to buy the narrator?

4. What do the narrator and engineer drink?

5. At what does the old man stare when the narrator gives him his the money?

Short Essay Questions

1. How has the narrator's poverty already been revealed to the reader?

2. Why does Mr. Christie reject the narrator?

3. Describe the narrator's apartment at the beginning of the novel.

4. Why does the narrator stop to read the late editions of the newspapers, and for what does he apply?

5. What are the narrator's worries about the word 'kuboaa'?

6. What criticism does the editor give the narrator over his articles?

7. How do the policemen throughout the novel treat the narrator?

8. Why does the narrator become annoyed with the old man?

9. Why does the narrator decide to return to his old apartment?

10. What lie does the narrator invent to explain why he returned for the pencil?

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