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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 5-7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Billy wants to be as successful as whom?
(a) The muckety mucks.
(b) The head honchos.
(c) The top bananas.
(d) The big shots.

2. According to Billy, what is "extraordinarily strong"?
(a) His compulsion to enter the bed and breakfast.
(b) His compulsion for success.
(c) His compulsion to meet the landlady.
(d) His compulsion to run.

3. The description of the wind in the opening paragraphs of the story employs what literary technique?
(a) Simile.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Hyperbole.
(d) Personification.

4. According to the narrator, how does Billy feel in his new clothes?
(a) Swanky.
(b) Fine.
(c) Successful.
(d) Clean.

5. When Billy goes to enter the bed and breakfast, he does so how?
(a) Automatically.
(b) Hastily.
(c) Deliberately.
(d) Carefully.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which bedroom is Billy given?

2. When Billy compares the landlady to a mother, he envisions her welcoming him for what holiday?

3. What game does Billy look forward to playing at the pub?

4. Upon staring in the Bed and Breakfast's window, Billy immediately sees what?

5. Upon showing Billy around the bed and breakfast, how does the landlady describe her home?

(see the answer key)

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