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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What tickets does the Officer of the Day hand out?
(a) Clothing tickets.
(b) Rent tickets.
(c) Food tickets.
(d) Healthcare tickets.

2. Who has sent the letter to him?
(a) The police.
(b) The editor.
(c) His landlady.
(d) Hans Pauli.

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

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

5. What is the woman outside the pawnshop carrying when the narrator leaves the building for the second time?
(a) A bunch of flowers.
(b) A small dog.
(c) A suitcase.
(d) A hat box.

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

7. What has the narrator lost when he arrives back home?
(a) His manuscript.
(b) A letter.
(c) His hat.
(d) His keys.

8. Who does Queeny recommend to the narrator?
(a) His publisher.
(b) His butcher.
(c) His seamstress.
(d) His tailor.

9. Of whom does the stonecutter remind the narrator?
(a) A bookkeeper.
(b) A banker.
(c) A debt collector.
(d) His brother.

10. What does the narrator intend to buy with the remaining money?
(a) Some soap.
(b) A new shirt.
(c) Breakfast.
(d) Some paper.

11. Where is the narrator sitting at the beginning of Part Two?
(a) A cemetery.
(b) A park.
(c) A town square.
(d) An inn.

12. What makes the narrator cry?
(a) Aggressiveness.
(b) Friendliness.
(c) Patience.
(d) Trickery.

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

14. What does the policeman see inside the paper cone?
(a) A krone.
(b) Silver.
(c) Nothing.
(d) A feather.

15. Why can't the narrator sell his glasses?
(a) They're scratched.
(b) They're broken.
(c) They're bent.
(d) They're steel-rimmed.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what is the woman in black's umbrella ring made?

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

3. For which paper does the narrator say he works?

4. Why does the woman's friend think the narrator is acting so strangely?

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

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