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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 elderly man in the narrator's story?
(a) Tomas
(b) Michael
(c) Roucolle
(d) Igor

2. How money money does the man owe Boris?
(a) 1,000 francs
(b) 5,000 francs
(c) 4,000 francs
(d) 500 francs

3. Who does the narrator say are the slaves of the modern world?
(a) Chambermaids
(b) Plongeurs
(c) Chefs
(d) Prostitutes

4. What does the narrator do to earn money?
(a) Writes
(b) Rents rooms
(c) Sells drugs
(d) Teaches English

5. How many gas stoves are there in the restaurant kitchen?
(a) 7
(b) 2
(c) 3
(d) 1

Short Answer Questions

1. How much money is the narrator living on a day?

2. Where do Boris and the narrator eat their meals?

3. What is the name of the restaurant?

4. What kind of game do the workmen play at the bistro?

5. What does the landlady tell her tenant not to do?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Roucolle lose all of his money?

4. Describe the narrator's job at the hotel.

5. How does the narrator get money in chapter 4?

6. Describe the ghetto where the narrator lives.

7. Describe the working conditions at the Auberge.

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

9. In what way does the narrator's life get better in chapter 17?

10. Describe the narrator's Saturday nights.

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