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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of cake does the narrator take from the seller's table?
(a) French roll.
(b) Cheese bun.
(c) Iced sponge.
(d) Currant roll.

2. What does the narrator think the guest who takes his room does for a living?
(a) An actor.
(b) A blacksmith.
(c) A politician.
(d) A sailor.

3. Who tries breaking up the children's fight physically?
(a) A policeman.
(b) The landlady's son.
(c) The landlady.
(d) The narrator.

4. What reason does the narrator give for abandoning his chance at warm lodgings?
(a) Stupidity.
(b) Insanity.
(c) Pride.
(d) Hunger.

5. For what does the narrator ask from the lame man at the railway pier?
(a) Money.
(b) Tobacco.
(c) Bread.
(d) Milk.

6. Who does the narrator say invented conscience?
(a) Aristotle.
(b) Kierkegaard.
(c) Kant.
(d) Shakespeare.

7. Where does the narrator pass as he walks home from stealing a cab ride?
(a) His old apartment.
(b) A gallery.
(c) The police station.
(d) The newspaper offices.

8. What is the Chief doing at the pier?
(a) Waiting for a train.
(b) Boarding a ship.
(c) Looking for the narrator.
(d) Going fishing.

9. What part of the narrator's body is injured when he is hit by the cart?
(a) His arm.
(b) His head.
(c) His hands.
(d) His foot.

10. What is the nationality of the ship Copégoro?
(a) Norwegian.
(b) Dutch.
(c) Russian.
(d) Spanish.

11. What kind of cheese had the landlady bought?
(a) Gouda.
(b) Emmentaler.
(c) Cheddar.
(d) Caraway.

12. What is the prominent feature of the man spitting onto the child playing in the street?
(a) His red hair.
(b) He is wearing a top hat.
(c) He is wearing a red cravat.
(d) His red beard.

13. What is the name of the dockworker playing cards with the landlady's husband?
(a) Queeny.
(b) Pauli.
(c) Stony.
(d) Glassy.

14. Where does the narrator leave his offering for the boy to find?
(a) On a post-box.
(b) Outside the door.
(c) In the street.
(d) By a lamppost.

15. Who stops the landlady from evicting the narrator into the night?
(a) The hired girl.
(b) Her husband.
(c) The children.
(d) The old man.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color are the hired girl's eyes?

2. About what does the narrator joke to himself as he talks to himself in his room?

3. What does the narrator want to portray burning in a bookshop?

4. What does the sailor say they need?

5. What does Ylayali accuse the narrator of being?

(see the answer keys)

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