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. Why is Karl so useful to Therese when she is running errands in the city?
(a) He is able to carry much heavier loads than she can.
(b) He is more confident in dealing with the businesses they enter.
(c) He has a much better sense of direction than Therese does.
(d) He can protect her from the advances of men in the city.

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

3. When Karl calls Klara a "wild cat," what technique is being used?
(a) Personification.
(b) Simile.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Metonymy.

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

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