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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. What does the narrator buy for his breakfast?
(a) Bread and cheese.
(b) A plate of potatoes.
(c) Some eggs.
(d) A side of beef.

2. What does the narrator find in his pawned waistcoat pocket?
(a) An address.
(b) Money.
(c) An invitation.
(d) Pawnshop tickets.

3. What does the narrator say his landlord does for a profession?
(a) A stevedore.
(b) A shipworker.
(c) A journalist.
(d) A businessman.

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

5. What physical feature of the woman outside the butcher's shop nauseates the narrator?
(a) An amputated leg.
(b) Her single yellow tooth.
(c) Her scarred face.
(d) Her single eye.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the woman thinking of buying from the butcher's shop?

2. On which floor of the apartment building is the pawnshop on Pile Street?

3. What does the narrator claim the woman is losing?

4. To what does the narrator liken the old man as he climbs the hill?

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

(see the answer key)

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