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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. Why does the narrator go into the grocery shop again after taking the extra change?
(a) To try and get more.
(b) To borrow another candle.
(c) To confess.
(d) To steal a loaf of bread.

2. Where does the narrator recognize the cake-seller working?
(a) Elephant Apothecary.
(b) Church of Our Saviour.
(c) St. Olaf's Place.
(d) Railway pier.

3. Where had Queeny met Ylayali for the first time?
(a) At a restaurant.
(b) By a bookstore.
(c) In a hotel.
(d) By the river.

4. Who is the cripple on the railway pier?
(a) Jans the stable boy.
(b) Queeny.
(c) The welt-binder.
(d) The editor.

5. With what do the landlady's daughters tease the old man?
(a) Pebbles.
(b) Feathers.
(c) Straws.
(d) Sticks.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which day is the narrator to meet Ylayali?

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

3. What is the character Kierulf supposed to trade?

4. About what does the narrator joke to himself as he talks to himself in his room?

5. Who is the main character of the narrator's proposed play, 'The Sign of the Cross'?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why does the narrator still try to force himself upon Ylayali?

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

5. How does Queeny say he knows Ylayali?

6. What convinces the narrator that he is sane?

7. What happens when the narrator goes to the grocer's to ask for a candle on credit?

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

9. How does Queeny offend the narrator?

10. What happens when the narrator is finally kicked out?

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