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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does the narrator discover in the darkness of his cell?
(a) Despair.
(b) A rat.
(c) His keys.
(d) A new word.

4. Why does the narrator's friend not buy anything from him?
(a) He is unfriendly.
(b) He has no money.
(c) He is uninterested.
(d) He is offended.

5. What is in the old man's paper-wrapped package in the end?
(a) Money.
(b) Sandwiches.
(c) Carpenter's tools.
(d) Documents.

6. Where has Mr. Pettersen gone?
(a) To the library.
(b) To the hospital.
(c) To his university.
(d) Home.

7. Who wakes the narrator when he falls asleep on the park bench
(a) A park attendant.
(b) A policeman.
(c) His landlady.
(d) The old man.

8. Of what is the woman in black's umbrella ring made?
(a) Silver.
(b) Rubber.
(c) Ivory.
(d) Gold.

9. 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.

10. What kind of job opening does the narrator see?
(a) Acting.
(b) Gardening.
(c) Storekeeping.
(d) Bookkeeping.

11. What does the narrator make a habit of eating to stave off hunger?
(a) Dirt.
(b) Grass.
(c) Insects.
(d) Wood shavings.

12. What does the narrator say is the nicest object in his apartment?
(a) The rocking chair.
(b) The painting.
(c) The double bed.
(d) The stove.

13. What type of business does Fabian Olsen own?
(a) A bakery.
(b) A linen shop.
(c) A butcher shop.
(d) A candlestick maker.

14. What body part does the narrator try to bite off in a fit of hunger?
(a) His forefinger.
(b) His little finger.
(c) His thumb.
(d) His large toe.

15. For which paper does the narrator say he works?
(a) Evening Times.
(b) Afternoon Times.
(c) Morning Times.
(d) Viking.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is making the narrator feel drunk?

2. For whom does the woman mistake the narrator?

3. What does the policeman see inside the paper cone?

4. What does the narrator owe Hans Pauli?

5. By what is the girl shocked when she comes up to the narrator in the street?

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