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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the restaurant count its success?
(a) By how many Frenchmen come
(b) How much money they earn
(c) The number of rats in the kitchen
(d) The amount of empty plates

2. In what city does the narrator take a job?
(a) Monaco
(b) Birmingham
(c) London
(d) Lentz

3. What does the narrator not have that he had at the hotel?
(a) Chambermids
(b) Music
(c) Daily pay
(d) Breaks

4. For how long does the narrator work at the restaurant?
(a) 3months
(b) 2 weeks
(c) 1 month
(d) 3 weeks

5. What does the narrator wear to the Auberge on his last day in Paris?
(a) Shorts
(b) Nothing
(c) A wet suit
(d) A suit

6. Where do Charlie and Yvonne meet the woman from the charity?
(a) A bar
(b) A church
(c) A bistro
(d) The street

7. How many gas stoves are there in the restaurant kitchen?
(a) 1
(b) 7
(c) 2
(d) 3

8. What does the narrator say goes out of the window when people are hungry?
(a) Respectability
(b) Morals
(c) Fun
(d) Money

9. What does the narrator do to earn money?
(a) Teaches English
(b) Writes
(c) Rents rooms
(d) Sells drugs

10. Which part of Boris' body is badly hurt?
(a) His back
(b) His hand
(c) His leg
(d) His head

11. On what day of the week does the narrator go to the bistro?
(a) Saturday
(b) Monday
(c) Tuesday
(d) Sunday

12. In how many weeks will the restaurant open?
(a) Six
(b) Four
(c) Two
(d) Three

13. How many francs a week does the narrator have to spend on drink?
(a) 50
(b) 30
(c) 100
(d) 12

14. Which character reappears in this chapter?
(a) Charlie
(b) Boris
(c) Bono
(d) The Jew

15. In what does the narrator say he washes the dishes?
(a) Dirty water
(b) Lukewarm water
(c) Cold water
(d) Hot water

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator do when he witnesses a murder?

2. For how many days does the narrator loaf?

3. What kind of slave does the narrator say the plongeur is?

4. What kind of people does the charity in Charlie's story feed?

5. What is the narrator's position at the restaurant?

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