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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, pages 19-35.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On which floor of the apartment building is the pawnshop on Pile Street?
(a) The second floor.
(b) The attic.
(c) The basement.
(d) The ground floor.

2. What does the narrator offer the old man who sits down on his bench?
(a) His painting.
(b) A cigarette.
(c) His coupons.
(d) A drink.

3. Where does the narrator decide to go to write for the day after seeing Hans Pauli?
(a) The riverside.
(b) The public gardens.
(c) The public library.
(d) Back home.

4. What are the two gentlemen doing while sitting on the narrator's seat?
(a) Laughing.
(b) Reading.
(c) Smoking.
(d) Writing.

5. Who does the narrator overtake as he leaves the park to return to the pawnshop?
(a) Two nursemaids.
(b) Two women.
(c) His landlady.
(d) A gardener.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator find in his pawned waistcoat pocket?

2. Where does the old man tell the narrator he had been the day before?

3. What does the pawnbroker have attached to his door that makes a distinctive sound?

4. What is the woman outside the pawnshop carrying when the narrator leaves the building for the second time?

5. What physical feature of the woman outside the butcher's shop nauseates the narrator?

(see the answer key)

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