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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To whom does the head waiter place a phone call after he fires Karl?
(a) The head cook.
(b) Hotel security.
(c) The hotel manager.
(d) A cab company.

2. Why does Delamarche say that the neighborhood he is currently living in is ideal?
(a) Brunelda's ex-husband is afraid to come there.
(b) There is a bar across the street.
(c) It is cheap.
(d) It is quiet.

3. What do Robinson and Karl tear the apartment apart looking for during Brunelda's bath?
(a) Perfume.
(b) Money.
(c) A key.
(d) Ribbons.

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

5. 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) Poverty and pollution.
(b) Angry, impatient people.
(c) Vehicles in motion.
(d) Color, smells, and sound.

6. What does the word "Occidental" mean?
(a) An irregular, eight-sided shape.
(b) Having to do with the West.
(c) Of foreign origin, exotic.
(d) Containing sharp ridges.

7. What causes Karl to have second thoughts about leaving New York?
(a) The sight of an area that reminds him of Germany.
(b) The way Robinson and Delamarche eat the salami without offering any to Karl.
(c) Robinson and Delamarche's criticisms of Jakob's company.
(d) His memory of his room, desk, and piano in his room in New York.

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

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

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

11. What geographic error is introduced when the three men turn to look back at New York City?
(a) The Statue of Liberty is in the wrong location.
(b) They are facing West when they see New York.
(c) Manhattan is on the mainland.
(d) There is a bridge connecting New York and Boston.

12. Why is Karl's uniform wet when he first tries it on?
(a) From the coffee the tailor spilled.
(b) From the broken dryer in the hotel laundry.
(c) From the plumbing leak it was used to stop.
(d) From the sweat of its previous wearer.

13. When asked by the head cook, what age does Karl claim to be?
(a) 17.
(b) 15.
(c) 21.
(d) 19.

14. How does Delamarche wake Karl in the morning?
(a) He tickles Karl under the arm.
(b) He tips Karl's chair backward.
(c) He whispers in Karl's ear.
(d) He drops the lid of Karl's trunk.

15. 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 any suspicious visitors to the porter's office.
(c) Lift boys are not allowed to have others cover for them while they are away from the lifts.
(d) Lift boys are supposed to report their absence to the head waiter via telephone.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

3. What makes it so difficult for Karl to get a meal for himself and his companions at the Occidental Hotel?

4. Where is Therese originally from?

5. Who is the woman that eventually helps Karl get something to eat?

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