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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. When will the narrator's new employers arrive home?
(a) In a week
(b) In a month
(c) In 6 months
(d) In two weeks

2. What is the name of Paddy's friend?
(a) Bozo
(b) Biff
(c) Bono
(d) Jake

3. Where do the group of men in this chapter live?
(a) On a boat
(b) An underground cellar
(c) Under a bridge
(d) A brothel

4. What causes swear words to lose their original meaning?
(a) Regular use
(b) Cinema
(c) Legislation
(d) Change in language

5. What does the narrator never expect a tramp to be when he gives them a penny?
(a) Grateful
(b) Drug addicts
(c) Employed in the morning
(d) Rich

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of shelter does the narrator stay in in this chapter?

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

3. About what does the narrator tell the carpenter?

4. On the what do the tramps sleep?

5. Which of the following is an example of the work Bozo and his friends do?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the character of Paddy.

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

3. What does the narrator believe he has learned from his experiences?

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

5. What shocks the narrator in chapter 35?

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

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

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

9. How does the narrator describe the deputy and his wife?

10. Describe the Salvation Army shelter.

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