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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 landlady doing while the narrator is trying to write in the family-room?
(a) Cleaning.
(b) Talking.
(c) Sewing.
(d) Cooking.

2. What part of the narrator's body is injured when he is hit by the cart?
(a) His arm.
(b) His hands.
(c) His foot.
(d) His head.

3. What does the narrator want to give to the small boy who had been spat upon?
(a) His pencil.
(b) A letter.
(c) A krone.
(d) His last cake.

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

5. Where does the narrator leave his offering for the boy to find?
(a) By a lamppost.
(b) Outside the door.
(c) On a post-box.
(d) In the street.

Short Answer Questions

1. What reason does the narrator give for abandoning his chance at warm lodgings?

2. What color dress is Ylayali wearing when the narrator sees her with The Duke?

3. Why does Queeny think the narrator has been fired from Christie's?

4. About what does the narrator joke to himself as he talks to himself in his room?

5. Who comes looking for the narrator as he is kicked out of his lodgings?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the narrator put himself in view of The Chief?

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

3. What happens to the narrator that makes him aware of his mental sluggishness?

4. How does Queeny say he knows Ylayali?

5. Describe how the narrator leaves Ylayali's apartment.

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

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

8. How does the narrator react to seeing Ylayali with 'The Duke'?

9. What happens when the narrator goes to the grocer's to ask for a candle on credit?

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

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