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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the time of year at the beginning of the novel?
(a) Summer.
(b) Winter.
(c) Fall.
(d) Spring.

2. Why does Mr. Christie decide against employing the narrator?
(a) Doesn't like his appearance.
(b) Bad handwriting on the application.
(c) Wrong date on the application.
(d) Doesn't like his name.

3. What does the narrator claim the woman is losing?
(a) Her house.
(b) Her book.
(c) Her honour.
(d) Her sanity.

4. For what change does the editor ask in the sketch?
(a) More emotional.
(b) More popular.
(c) More avant-garde.
(d) Less simplistic.

5. What is on the menu at the Steam Kitchen?
(a) Corned meat.
(b) Fish.
(c) Eggs.
(d) Bread and cheese.

6. What does the narrator tell Queeny is in his package?
(a) Paper.
(b) Food.
(c) Leather.
(d) Cloth.

7. Who suggests to the narrator that he should ask to be locked up?
(a) The Duke.
(b) Hans Pauli.
(c) Cisler.
(d) Pastor Levison.

8. To what does the narrator compare the wastebasket in the editor's office?
(a) Lion's maw.
(b) Dragon's maw.
(c) Endless pit.
(d) Wolf's maw.

9. What is the narrator tempted to steal from the marketplace?
(a) Fruit.
(b) Roses.
(c) Newspaper.
(d) Bread.

10. What does the old man say he needs money to buy?
(a) Alcohol.
(b) A glass of milk.
(c) A loaf of bread.
(d) A pair of shoes.

11. What newspaper covers the walls of the narrator's apartment?
(a) Boston Post.
(b) The Morning Times.
(c) Evening Standard.
(d) New York Herald.

12. Where does the narrator say he is sending the package?
(a) Tangiers.
(b) Smyrna.
(c) Moscow.
(d) Beirut.

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

14. What does the narrator leave behind when he is asked to move on by the policeman?
(a) His waistcoat.
(b) His blanket.
(c) His hat.
(d) His papers.

15. Hans Pauli Pettersen is the son of whom?
(a) A farmer.
(b) A journalist.
(c) A cabinet minister.
(d) A policeman.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the narrator sitting at the beginning of Part Two?

2. Why does the narrator give up on his idea of writing "Crimes of the Future"?

3. What does the narrator make from the blank piece of paper in his pocket?

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

5. What body part does the narrator try to bite off in a fit of hunger?

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