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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 does the narrator do when he witnesses a murder?
(a) Calls the police
(b) Goes back to bed
(c) Confronts the killer
(d) Calls the landlady

2. Which is of the following is not likely to be a resident in the neighborhood?
(a) Lawyers
(b) Bricklayers
(c) Students
(d) Stonemasons

3. What is the main problem at the restaurant?
(a) It is underpaid
(b) It is cold
(c) It is understaffed
(d) There is nowhere to sleep

4. What is the name of the elderly man in the narrator's story?
(a) Michael
(b) Tomas
(c) Igor
(d) Roucolle

5. In what city does the narrator take a job?
(a) Birmingham
(b) Lentz
(c) London
(d) Monaco

Short Answer Questions

1. In what does the narrator say he washes the dishes?

2. How many francs has the Jew stolen off Boris?

3. Which part of Boris' body is badly hurt?

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

5. What does Yvonne stuff in her clothing?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the narrator say are his best and worst days working at the hotel?

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

3. Why is the narrator berated for wearing a mustache in chapter 13?

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

5. Describe the Russian society in chapter 8.

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

7. Describe the ghetto where the narrator lives.

8. Why does Boris fall into despair in chapter 6?

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

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

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