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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Delamarche and Robinson both say their profession is?
(a) Construction worker.
(b) Dockworker.
(c) Locksmith.
(d) Truck driver.

2. What is the cause of the crowd gathering in the street outside the apartment on the first night that Karl spends there?
(a) A steelworker's strike.
(b) A political rally.
(c) A boxing match.
(d) A holiday parade.

3. At the hotel, what suggestion of Karl's causes Robinson to begin loudly weeping?
(a) Karl suggests that Robinson should go to the hospital.
(b) Karl suggests that Delamarche is still bullying Robinson.
(c) Karl suggests that Robinson should be ashamed of how he has treated Karl.
(d) Karl suggests that Delamarche and Robinson are just broke con men.

4. What does the head cook promise to bring Karl on the day following his firing?
(a) The business correspondence manual.
(b) The address of another hotel he can work at.
(c) The money he has left in her safe.
(d) A clean new suit.

5. Whose holds the job the head porter calls the "most stupid work in the entire hotel" (175)?
(a) The errand boys who work for the underporters.
(b) The underporters who answer guest questions.
(c) The hotel detectives.
(d) The lift boys.

6. What is the significance of the lift boy that passes Karl and Robinson while Karl is sneaking Robinson into the dormitory?
(a) He is running from the fight in the dormitory.
(b) He has been called to clean the light shaft.
(c) He has been called to cover Karl's lift.
(d) He has a message for the head waiter.

7. What is Karl eating at the end of Chapter V, "At the Occidental Hotel"?
(a) A banana.
(b) Cheese.
(c) Salami.
(d) An apple.

8. If the plan to find jobs in Butterford does not work out, what does Robinson suggest they will need to do?
(a) Go to California and pan for gold.
(b) Go back to New York and work for Jakob.
(c) Go to Chicago and work in a slaughterhouse.
(d) Go to Boston and find work on a fishing boat.

9. What were Delamarche and Robinson doing when they met Brunelda?
(a) Drinking.
(b) Working.
(c) Stealing.
(d) Begging.

10. When Karl first looks up at the balcony after he arrives, what does he notice about Delamarche?
(a) Delamarche is fanning himself with a tiny fan.
(b) Delamarche is eating a large salami.
(c) Delamarche is holding a red parasol.
(d) Delamarche is looking at him through opera glasses.

11. What rule does Karl find out he has violated when he returns to his lift after escorting Robinson to the dormitory?
(a) Lift boys are not allowed to have visitors at the hotel.
(b) Lift boys are supposed to report their absence to the head waiter via telephone.
(c) Lift boys are supposed to report any suspicious visitors to the porter's office.
(d) Lift boys are not allowed to have others cover for them while they are away from the lifts.

12. What do Robinson and Delamarche convince Karl to do with his good suit?
(a) Leave it in the room at the inn.
(b) Loan it to Delamarche.
(c) Pack it in his trunk.
(d) Sell it to the chambermaid.

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

14. What do Karl's thoughts as he prepares to open his trunk for the first time in two months reveal about him?
(a) His plans for the future are wildly unrealistic.
(b) He is still a terrible judge of character.
(c) He does not fully understand how precarious his situation is.
(d) His love for his parents is stronger than his anger at them.

15. As he looks at the photograph of his parents, what decision does Karl reconsider?
(a) Coming to America.
(b) Taking a shared room at the inn.
(c) Refusing to write home.
(d) The visit to Pollunder's.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Karl leave behind in the porter's lodge?

2. What does the word "Occidental" mean?

3. What job did Therese perform so well that she caught the head cook's attention and was offered the job of secretary?

4. What does Robinson say prevented him and Delamarche from finding work after Karl left them outside the Occidental Hotel?

5. What compliment does Karl offer Therese about her job?

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