View a FREE sample

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 say a tramp needs?
(a) A farm
(b) Meaningful work
(c) A free bath house
(d) Affection

2. Where is the cheapest lodgings in London?
(a) The Embankment
(b) Charing Cross
(c) Wandsworth
(d) Leicester Square

3. What kind of stories does the narrator hear at the Cromley spike?
(a) Love stories
(b) Folk tales
(c) Ghost stories
(d) Bad luck stories

4. What kind of status does the narrator say that tramps need to attain?
(a) Human status
(b) Pauper status
(c) Working status
(d) Wealthy status

5. What does a tramp tell the narrator about in this chapter?
(a) Love
(b) The spike
(c) Women
(d) His upbringing

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the narrator say would make people like begging more?

3. What does the narrator say he will he never think again about tramps?

4. How often does Bozo draw new pictures?

5. To what does the narrator compare the spikes?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does the narrator discover about England in chapter 25?

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

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

5. How is Paddy different from Boris?

6. Describe the sleeping conditions of a spike.

7. Describe the character of Paddy.

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

9. Describe the Salvation Army shelter.

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

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 692 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample