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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 odd verb does the landlady use when describing Mr. Mulholland's arrival at the bed and breakfast?
(a) Reached.
(b) Emerged.
(c) Came.
(d) Appeared.

2. When Billy thinks the landlady is harmless, what literary device is being used?
(a) Simile.
(b) Personification.
(c) Irony.
(d) Metaphor.

3. After showing Billy to his room, what does the landlady offer him?
(a) Coffee.
(b) A cocktail.
(c) Supper.
(d) A hot bath.

4. In order to lower the price, the landlady offers to eliminate what?
(a) The tea at supper.
(b) The egg at breakfast.
(c) The wakeup call in the morning.
(d) The fire in his room.

5. What does Billy assume about the landlady's past?
(a) That she lost a son in the war.
(b) That she was jilted at the altar.
(c) That she lost a husband in an accident.
(d) That she had never married.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Billy describes the landlady as being "off her rocker," what literary convention is being used?

2. According to the landlady, she is always on the lookout for what?

3. According to the landlady, how had she been feeling prior to Billy's arrival?

4. What does Billy believe about when Mr. Mulholland left the bed and breakfast?

5. According to the landlady, what is the law of the land?

Short Essay Questions

1. After the landlady leaves Billy in his room, what does Billy think about her? Why counterargument does he use to dismiss this concern?

2. According to the landlady, who stays on the first and second floors?

3. When the landlady comes into the sitting room, what is odd about the manner in which she is carrying the object? What might the narrator be trying to tell the reader?

4. Upon entering the bed and breakfast, what does Billy notice about the entranceway that strikes him as odd?

5. What information does Billy discover in the guestbook?

6. What reaction does Billy have to the information he finds in the guestbook?

7. According to Billy, what is odd about the dates of the previous entries in the guestbook?

8. According to Billy, how does the landlady smell? Of what does the smell remind him?

9. What request does the landlady make of Billy before he goes to bed?

10. What does Billy believe about the landlady's past that explains her current behavior?

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