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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 do the narrator and Boris do to their cheeks to make themselves look respectable?
(a) Scratch them
(b) Pinch them
(c) Apply make up
(d) Slap them

2. What do the postcard sellers say they are selling?
(a) Art
(b) Sweets
(c) Photographs
(d) Pornography

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

4. To what kind of people is the fear of the mob attributed?
(a) Nobility
(b) The middle classes
(c) The working classes
(d) Intelligent people

5. Which of the following animals raid the food in the yard?
(a) Rabbits
(b) Dogs
(c) Mice
(d) Cats

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the narrator say people can get much better food?

2. How many hours a day does the narrator work at the hotel?

3. How many gas stoves are there in the restaurant kitchen?

4. In how many weeks will the restaurant open?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Boris and the narrator's interview at the Auberge.

2. Describe the working conditions at the Auberge.

3. In what way is Boris in bad shape in chapter 5?

4. Why does the narrator believe that people are kept in poverty?

5. Why is the narrator berated for wearing a mustache in chapter 13?

6. Describe the story Valenti tells in chapter 15.

7. Describe the Russian society in chapter 8.

8. What decision does Boris make in chapter 7?

9. Why does Boris fall into despair in chapter 6?

10. How does Roucolle lose all of his money?

(see the answer keys)

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