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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 do the narrator think the rich imagine to be at stake if the poor are not kept in poverty?
(a) Their jobs
(b) Their liberty
(c) Their money
(d) Their children

2. What does the narrator have to ration?
(a) Tobacco
(b) Postcards
(c) Food
(d) Sweets

3. What does the narrator not have that he had at the hotel?
(a) Breaks
(b) Music
(c) Daily pay
(d) Chambermids

4. Where do the staff go to get some fresh air?
(a) The bistro
(b) The park
(c) The bar
(d) The river

5. What wakes the narrator outside his window?
(a) A dog barking
(b) Lovers
(c) A murder
(d) A cat fight

Short Answer Questions

1. How many hours do the staff work in the evening?

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

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

4. Out of how much money does the doorman cheat the narrator?

5. How much does the narrator earn per month at the restaurant?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the narrator believe that people are kept in poverty?

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

3. Describe Boris and the narrator's interview at the Auberge.

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

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

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

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

8. Describe the narrator's Saturday nights.

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

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

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