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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 Chief doing at the pier?
(a) Going fishing.
(b) Waiting for a train.
(c) Looking for the narrator.
(d) Boarding a ship.

2. What does the narrator think the guest who takes his room does for a living?
(a) A sailor.
(b) A politician.
(c) An actor.
(d) A blacksmith.

3. About what does the narrator joke to himself as he talks to himself in his room?
(a) Fish.
(b) Writing.
(c) Cheese.
(d) His landlady.

4. Who comes looking for the narrator as he is kicked out of his lodgings?
(a) The police.
(b) Ylayali.
(c) The Chief.
(d) A messenger.

5. Who does the narrator see first on the morning of his eviction?
(a) Sailors.
(b) Patrolmen.
(c) Lantern-men.
(d) Drunks.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sound does the narrator hear when he is working in the sailor's room?

2. What noise disturbs the narrator from continuing with his play?

3. What is the theme of the article the narrator is writing at the beginning of Part Four?

4. What does the landlord call the old man?

5. Where is the Copégoro going after Leeds?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What convinces the narrator that he is sane?

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

4. A few days later, why is the narrator still sleeping in the family room?

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

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

7. Why does the narrator not speak to the woman in black when he first sees her outside his apartment?

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

9. Where does the narrator decide to live?

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

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