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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3: Chapter IV, "The March to Ramses," and Chapter V, "At the Occidental Hotel".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What disappoints Karl about his new job?
(a) The manual explicitly forbids sleeping in the elevator during slow hours.
(b) He cannot figure out how to polish the elevator brass as well as Rennel does.
(c) He is assigned to an elevator that does not serve the hotel's richer clients.
(d) The only contact he has with the elevator's machinery is pushing a button.

2. When Karl imagines that his visit to the Pollunders might become "the turning point in his relationship with his uncle," what techniques are being used (57)?
(a) Juxtaposition and paradox.
(b) Irony and juxtaposition.
(c) Paradox and foreshadowing.
(d) Foreshadowing and irony.

3. What question does the man with the bamboo stick ask Karl?
(a) What his name is.
(b) Whether he has lost a trunk.
(c) Whether he is German.
(d) Why he is in America.

4. When Karl is wandering through the vast Pollunder house, what is he reminded of?
(a) The many floors of offices in his uncle's building.
(b) Families on the east side of the city who live crowded together in one room.
(c) The sprawling interior of the ship he traveled to America on.
(d) The cozy warmth of his parents' home in Germany.

5. How does Karl almost fall from a window at the Pollunder house?
(a) Klara pushes him.
(b) He leans out to see a bird.
(c) He leans out to hear a train.
(d) He loses his way in a dark hallway.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Robinson and Delamarche convince Karl to do with his good suit?

2. What makes Karl uncomfortable about the building his uncle lives in?

3. Which word best characterizes the stoker's explanation to the captain of his grievances against Schubal?

4. What does Jakob ask Karl if he has cancelled in preparation for his visit to Pollunder's?

5. What is the primary focus of the text's description of the scenery that Karl and his companions first travel through during their walk?

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