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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 kind of business does Jakob own?
(a) Marketing and sales.
(b) Publishing.
(c) Manufacturing.
(d) Shipping and consignment.

2. What do Delamarche and Robinson criticize about Jakob's company?
(a) Its labor practices.
(b) Its price gouging.
(c) Its environmental impact.
(d) Its bribery of officials.

3. Although Karl thinks that Jakob indulges him generously, what does the narrative imply is true about Jakob's behavior toward Karl?
(a) Jakob is stern with Karl because he sees Karl's potential.
(b) Jakob is using Karl to heal the rift between himself and Karl's mother.
(c) Jakob intends to make Karl a partner in his buisness.
(d) Jakob is needlessly distant and controlling toward Karl.

4. How does Karl's relationship with Rennel show that Karl has not grown much from his experiences?
(a) Karl does not like Rennel because of his nationality.
(b) Karl lets Rennel cheat him out of his salary.
(c) Karl does not know when Rennel is lying to him.
(d) Karl lets Rennel take advantage of him.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. If the plan to find jobs in Butterford does not work out, what does Robinson suggest they will need to do?

2. What does Jakob insist that Karl be home in the morning in time to do?

3. 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)?

4. What does Karl ask Pollunder about on the drive out to the country?

5. What does Karl feel he is being treated like during dinner at the Pollunder house?

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