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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the primary focus of the text's description of the scenery that Karl and his companions first travel through during their walk?
(a) Color, smells, and sound.
(b) Vehicles in motion.
(c) Poverty and pollution.
(d) Angry, impatient people.

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

3. When Karl returns to Delamarche and Robinson after getting food at the hotel, what causes him to decide to separate from them and sleep in the hotel?
(a) Their attitude about the food he has brought back.
(b) Their request to hold onto his money for him.
(c) They have rifled through his trunk.
(d) They have moved to another location without telling him.

4. Where does Brunelda say that Karl can sleep when he first arrives at the apartment?
(a) On the settee.
(b) Behind the closets.
(c) On a pile of curtains.
(d) In the bathtub.

5. What information do Karl's first remarks to Delamarche and Robinson unintentionally give away?
(a) He is sociable and genuinely interested in other people.
(b) He is a recent German immigrant with few prospects in life.
(c) He is polite and easy-going and will be no trouble to share a room with.
(d) He is naive and may have resources they can take advantage of.

6. 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) He cannot find his money.
(c) It is overwhelmingly crowded.
(d) It is a large hotel with a confusing layout.

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

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

9. What comic detail is offered about the head porter's appearance?
(a) His beard is so shiny with wax that it looks as if it is soaking wet.
(b) His ears stick out from the sides of his heads like teacup handles.
(c) His clothing is so richly decorated that it makes it hard for him to move.
(d) His uniform hat is so tall that it is continually toppling from his head.

10. What element of the attic room's decor does Karl spend time looking at closely?
(a) The desk.
(b) The photographs.
(c) The piano.
(d) The linens.

11. What is the likely intended purpose of the scene with the coffeepot during the morning at the inn?
(a) It reveals Karl's innocence and vulnerability.
(b) It foreshadows Robinson and Delamarche's thievery.
(c) It is a comical portrayal of life in America.
(d) It contributes to the inn's eerie atmosphere.

12. When he is in the office talking with the head waiter and the head porter, what does Karl believe is the cause of most of their accusations against him?
(a) Rumors started by Rennel.
(b) Mistaken identity.
(c) Jealousy over the head cook's favoritism.
(d) Concern for the hotel's reputation.

13. Where is Therese originally from?
(a) Boston.
(b) Paris.
(c) Pomerania.
(d) Prague.

14. What does Therese try to make Karl promise her?
(a) That he will ask the head waiter about a promotion.
(b) That he will not speak to Delamarche again.
(c) That he will not leave the Occidental without her.
(d) That he will study harder for the business correspondence course.

15. What first prompted Delamarche to think of getting Karl to come work as Brunelda's servant?
(a) Rennel suggested it and explained how to get Karl fired.
(b) Robinson threatened to quit if he did not get some help.
(c) The apartment was getting too dirty.
(d) He found the photograph that he stole from Karl.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Karl's uniform wet when he first tries it on?

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

3. To whom does the head waiter place a phone call after he fires Karl?

4. Why does Karl expect Robinson to be rougher looking than Delamarche?

5. From context clues, what can logically be inferred about what Brunelda's neighbor is studying?

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