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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what does the narrator insist the cart of potatoes is filled?

2. What does the landlord say is wrong with the old man?

3. What does the landlady ask the narrator to look over?

4. Who does the narrator see first on the morning of his eviction?

5. Who does the narrator realize is responsible for sending the 10-kroner note?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Queeny say he knows Ylayali?

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

3. How does the narrator dodge the street whore's invitation?

4. What convinces the narrator that he is sane?

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

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

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

8. How does Queeny offend the narrator?

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

10. Where does the narrator decide to live?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the author's life. In what way is his life and personality reflected in the book? What was his experience of starvation and poverty?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the values of the late 1800s. In what way are the characters products of their time? Does the book express the changes in either Norway or America at the time?

Essay Topic 3

Hunger is written in the first person. Why do you think the author chose this voice? How do you think the effect of the book would be changed were the book written in the third person?

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