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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 the tramps hide their money?
(a) In their shoes
(b) In their socks
(c) In their underpants
(d) Up their sleeves

2. What do the deputy and his wife make at any time of the day?
(a) Tea
(b) Breakfast
(c) Noise
(d) Coffee

3. How is Paddy eventually killed?
(a) He jumps off a bridge
(b) He starves
(c) He is run over
(d) He is murdered

4. Where does the narrator say is the best lodgings?
(a) Hyde Park
(b) Croydon
(c) Tufnell Park
(d) Basildon

5. On the what do the tramps sleep?
(a) A bed
(b) An armchair
(c) The floor
(d) A mattress

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Bozo consider to be a free show?

4. What does the former Eton man do during the night and while he's asleep?

5. Who does the narrator say is at blame for the existence of tramps?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are spikes?

2. How do the tramps behave in the church in chapter 33?

3. How does Bozo win the narrator's admiration in chapter 33?

4. How is Bozo more interesting than other homeless people he has met in the book?

5. In what way does the young man affect the narrator in chapter 29?

6. Describe the Salvation Army shelter.

7. What stories does the narrator hear at the Cromley spike?

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

9. What are the narrator's views on England as he travels there by boat?

10. What shocks the narrator in chapter 35?

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