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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. Where does the narrator pass as he walks home from stealing a cab ride?
(a) A gallery.
(b) His old apartment.
(c) The newspaper offices.
(d) The police station.

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

3. What season is it at the beginning of Part Four?
(a) Fall.
(b) Winter.
(c) Summer.
(d) Spring.

4. What sound does the narrator hear when he is working in the sailor's room?
(a) Swearing.
(b) Humming.
(c) Laughter.
(d) A fight.

5. Where is the Copégoro going after Leeds?
(a) Tangiers.
(b) New York.
(c) Cadiz.
(d) Lisbon.

Short Answer Questions

1. What part of the narrator's body is injured when he is hit by the cart?

2. Who starts singing while the narrator is staring out of the window?

3. What does the landlord call the old man?

4. What is the weather like on the morning of the narrator's date with Ylayali?

5. What is the landlady doing while the narrator is trying to write in the family-room?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who lives in the family room?

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Where does the narrator decide to live?

9. What happens to make the narrator lose faith in his play?

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

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