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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 the name of the narrator's Russian friend?
(a) Boris
(b) Sasha
(c) Andrey
(d) Igor

2. What does the narrator call the hotel where he works?
(a) Hotel Z
(b) Hotel X
(c) Hotel Dirty
(d) Hotel Slavery

3. What is the name of the waiter who tells a story in this chapter?
(a) Jean
(b) Davis
(c) Valenti
(d) Tomas

4. In what is Boris covered?
(a) Sun cream
(b) Spots
(c) Excrement
(d) Bug bites

5. What does the landlady tell her tenant not to do?
(a) Flush the toilet at night
(b) Yell
(c) Squash bugs
(d) Play music

Short Answer Questions

1. About what game do the narrator and the patron talk?

2. For how many days does the narrator loaf?

3. What do the narrator and Boris do to their cheeks to make themselves look respectable?

4. What do Boris and the narrator try to pawn?

5. How many days did Valenti go without eating?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the narrator describe waiters in chapter 14?

2. Describe the ghetto where the narrator lives.

3. How do Boris and the narrator pass the time while they wait for the restaurant to open?

4. What illusion does the narrator say the success of the restaurant destroys in chapter 21?

5. How does the narrator spend his last days in Paris?

6. Describe the story Charlie tells in chapter 18?

7. Describe the story Charlie tells in the second chapter?

8. Why do Boris and the narrator quit their jobs in chapter 19?

9. Why do the staff at the Auberge hate each other?

10. In what way does the narrator claim the restaurant is successful in chapter 21?

(see the answer keys)

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