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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) Up their sleeves
(b) In their shoes
(c) In their socks
(d) In their underpants

2. What do the narrator and his acquaintance have to do before they receive food from the church?
(a) Listen to a sermon
(b) Debate religion with the vicar
(c) Sing and dance
(d) Vandalize a rival church

3. Why does Paddy want to bury his money?
(a) To save it
(b) To avoid prison
(c) To see if it will grow
(d) To stop it from getting stolen

4. What does the narrator list in this chapter?
(a) Swear words
(b) Things he needs to do
(c) Difficult to prounce words
(d) Slang words

5. What does Bozo do to earn money?
(a) He is a pavement artist
(b) He sell cigarettes
(c) He writes poetry
(d) He sings and dances

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the narrator's new friend?

2. What do the tramps have to do first thing in the morning?

3. How does the narrator describe Paddy's ignorance?

4. How big are the bedrooms in the spike?

5. How many times a week do the church serve tea to tramps?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What shocks the narrator in chapter 35?

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

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

5. Describe the narrator's first night in London?

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

7. What ideas does the narrator have to improve the tramp's lives?

8. Describe the sleeping conditions of a spike.

9. Describe the Salvation Army shelter.

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

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