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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 name of the dockworker playing cards with the landlady's husband?
(a) Pauli.
(b) Glassy.
(c) Stony.
(d) Queeny.

2. What does the narrator knock over as he struggles with Ylayali?
(a) The table.
(b) A vase.
(c) The candle.
(d) A lamp.

3. What is the prominent feature of the man spitting onto the child playing in the street?
(a) He is wearing a top hat.
(b) He is wearing a red cravat.
(c) His red hair.
(d) His red beard.

4. Who stops the landlady from evicting the narrator into the night?
(a) The children.
(b) The old man.
(c) The hired girl.
(d) Her husband.

5. With what does the narrator insist the cart of potatoes is filled?
(a) Beetroot.
(b) Lettuce.
(c) Cabbage.
(d) Turnips.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what object belonging to Ylayali's does the narrator think when he sees the green-haired Christ on the wall?

2. What kind of cheese had the landlady bought?

3. What is the Copégoro carrying to Leeds?

4. What does the landlady ask the narrator to look over?

5. What noise disturbs the narrator from continuing with his play?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who lives in the family room?

2. Why do Ylayali and the narrator go up to her apartment?

3. Why does the narrator not eat all of his cakes?

4. How does the narrator dodge the street whore's invitation?

5. Why does the narrator still try to force himself upon Ylayali?

6. How does the narrator act towards Ylayali once they are upstairs?

7. What convinces the narrator that he is sane?

8. Why exactly does the narrator refuse the Chief's offer of an advance?

9. Why does the narrator not speak to the woman in black when he first sees her outside his apartment?

10. Why do you think Ylayali is disappointed in the narrator?

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