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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. Where do Boris and the narrator eat their meals?
(a) Restaurants
(b) The sewers
(c) Homeless shelters
(d) The narrator's bedroom

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

3. How many hours a day does the narrator work at the hotel?
(a) 17
(b) 11
(c) 9
(d) 14

4. How many francs a week does the narrator have to spend on drink?
(a) 50
(b) 100
(c) 30
(d) 12

5. For how many days does the narrator loaf?
(a) 5
(b) 4
(c) 2
(d) 3

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the name of the waiter who tells a story in this chapter?

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

4. What does Boris call the man with whom he shares a room?

5. How many gas stoves are there in the restaurant kitchen?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the story Charlie tells in chapter 18?

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

4. How does Charlie save the day in chapter 18?

5. How does Roucolle lose all of his money?

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

7. How does the narrator express how tired he is in chapter 16?

8. How is poverty affecting the narrator's life?

9. Describe the story Valenti tells in chapter 15.

10. In what way is Boris in bad shape in chapter 5?

(see the answer keys)

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