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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 list in this chapter?
(a) Difficult to prounce words
(b) Swear words
(c) Slang words
(d) Things he needs to do

2. What is a chanter?
(a) A street singer
(b) A preacher
(c) A public speaker
(d) A pretty girl

3. What do the narrator and Paddy visit in this chapter?
(a) A political meeting
(b) A sacred stone
(c) A temple
(d) A church

4. What does the narrator say has destroyed manhood?
(a) Love
(b) Marriage
(c) Malnutrition
(d) Society

5. What countries slang and swear words does the author discuss?
(a) France
(b) Britain
(c) Russia
(d) Holland

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the tramp major invite the narrator to work?

2. What is the name of the spike the narrator stays at in this chapter?

3. From what does the narrator say the tramps are cut off?

4. Where does the narrator say is the best lodgings?

5. What do the narrator and his acquaintance have to do before they receive food from the church?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the character of Paddy.

2. What reason does the carpenter give for throwing away all the food?

3. What happens in the morning at the spike in chapter 27?

4. Why does Paddy want to bury his five pence?

5. Why do you think the author includes this apparently irrelevant chapter in the book?

6. How do the people in the lodging house earn their money?

7. What reason does the narrator give for the existence of tramps?

8. What kind of people live in the lodging house?

9. What are spikes?

10. What happens to Paddy and Bozo in the final chapter?

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