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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is one of the stoker's chief complaints about Schubal?
(a) Schubal drinks on the job.
(b) Schubal is Romanian.
(c) Schubal is a Roman Catholic.
(d) Schubal has a criminal record.

2. What does the stoker suggest that Karl should do with his life?
(a) Go to college.
(b) Join a trade union.
(c) Go back to Europe.
(d) Find work out West.

3. What is the first thing Green discusses with the group during dinner at the Pollunder house?
(a) How inconvenient it is to have had to come all the way out to the country.
(b) How surprising it is that Jakob allowed Karl to visit.
(c) His dislike of Karl's table manners and general knowledge of American etiquette.
(d) His opinion that Jakob wastes a great deal of money on Karl.

4. What item from his trunk does Karl think of giving to the stoker?
(a) A piece of salami.
(b) A 10 Pfennig coin.
(c) A cat's eye marble.
(d) A pair of woolen socks.

5. When Karl imagines that his visit to the Pollunders might become "the turning point in his relationship with his uncle," what techniques are being used (57)?
(a) Paradox and foreshadowing.
(b) Irony and juxtaposition.
(c) Juxtaposition and paradox.
(d) Foreshadowing and irony.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the stoker, when is it most likely that a person would become a stoker?

2. To what city does Green want to send Karl?

3. How does Karl's mood change during dinner at the Pollunder's house?

4. Why are Karl and Jakob confused when Pollunder shows up to take Karl home with him?

5. What has the servant woman named the child that she alleges Karl fathered?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is so fascinating to Karl about the desk in his room?

2. How does Karl's uncle happen to be present on the ship that Karl sailed on?

3. What does Karl imagine about his parents when he is in the office with the stoker?

4. When the attendant tells the stoker to get out of the office, what does Karl do?

5. How does Schubal's manner when he enters the office tend to support the bursar's version of events?

6. What details portray the women in the ship's kitchen as boldly flirtatious?

7. What does the letter from Jakob to Karl say?

8. What does Karl discover about Mak on his trip to the Pollunder home?

9. What unexpected news does Klara give her father when he and Karl arrive at the Pollunder home, and how does Pollunder react?

10. Explain how Karl's inability to keep track of his possessions causes complications in "The Stoker."

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