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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 hotel detectives.
(c) The lift boys.
(d) The underporters who answer guest questions.

2. When the trio stop for lunch, whose father does Karl hear gossip about?
(a) Jakob's.
(b) Mack's.
(c) Green's.
(d) Klara's.

3. 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 a message for the head waiter.
(c) He has been called to cover Karl's lift.
(d) He has been called to clean the light shaft.

4. When Robinson appears at the Occidental Hotel, what does he tell Karl he buys almost every day?
(a) Books.
(b) Clothing.
(c) Salami.
(d) Brandy.

5. What surprises Delamarche and Robinson about Karl's time in New York?
(a) He did not find himself a girlfriend.
(b) He saw almost nothing of the city.
(c) He did not meet any native New Yorkers.
(d) He learned very little English.

6. What gossip starts to go around the Occidental about Rennel?
(a) He is pilfering small items from guests' rooms.
(b) He is about to be promoted to the hotel waitstaff.
(c) He is engaged in an inappropriate relationship with a guest.
(d) He is really the son of the hotel's owner.

7. Regardless of which dress she has on, what other item of clothing does Brunelda usually wear?
(a) A pair of white wool socks.
(b) A red hat with cardinal feathers.
(c) A pair of men's slippers.
(d) A fox fur stole.

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 Boston and find work on a fishing boat.
(d) Go to Chicago and work in a slaughterhouse.

9. What does the head cook tell Karl that he does not "seem the type" for?
(a) Deserting his companions.
(b) Wandering around the country.
(c) Studying at a university.
(d) Working at a menial job.

10. What does the policeman's repetition of Karl's name make Karl think is true?
(a) The policeman is prejudiced against Germans.
(b) The hotel is trying to have him traced.
(c) The policeman suspects him of something.
(d) The policeman is not very quick-witted.

11. What feature of his mother's face does Karl focus on in the photograph of her and his father?
(a) Her furrowed brow.
(b) Her forced smile.
(c) Her clenched fist.
(d) Her sharp eyes.

12. Besides the possible pay and the difficulty of getting other work, what reason does Robinson give for why Karl should accept the job?
(a) Delamarche will protect Karl from the police.
(b) Karl will get to be near Brunelda all the time.
(c) The food and drink supplied by the landlady are wonderful.
(d) It will please Delamarche and improve his mood.

13. What makes it so difficult for Karl to get a meal for himself and his companions at the Occidental Hotel?
(a) He is mistaken for waitstaff.
(b) It is overwhelmingly crowded.
(c) It is a large hotel with a confusing layout.
(d) He cannot find his money.

14. What does the head cook compliment Karl on?
(a) His discretion.
(b) His manners.
(c) His physique.
(d) His English.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does it mean that the head waiter has a "choleric" temperament?

2. When Karl first looks up at the balcony after he arrives, what does he notice about Delamarche?

3. How does Karl's relationship with Rennel show that Karl has not grown much from his experiences?

4. How did one of Brunelda's former servants lose his front tooth?

5. What kind offer of the head cook's does Karl turn down on his first morning at the hotel?

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