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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. On which floor is the narrator's guest room in the Food and Lodging for Travellers?
(a) Third floor.
(b) Second floor.
(c) Ground floor.
(d) Basement.

5. What does the narrator want to give to the small boy who had been spat upon?
(a) His last cake.
(b) His pencil.
(c) A letter.
(d) A krone.

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

7. Where does the narrator suggest to go with Ylayali?
(a) The park.
(b) The theatre.
(c) Her house.
(d) A restaurant.

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

9. What is the landlady doing while the narrator is trying to write in the family-room?
(a) Sewing.
(b) Talking.
(c) Cleaning.
(d) Cooking.

10. Where does the narrator recognize the cake-seller working?
(a) St. Olaf's Place.
(b) Elephant Apothecary.
(c) Church of Our Saviour.
(d) Railway pier.

11. What is the theme of the article the narrator is writing at the beginning of Part Four?
(a) Moral judgements.
(b) Allegory of a fire in a bookstore.
(c) Art history.
(d) Historical biography.

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

13. What does the narrator do as he walks out backwards?
(a) Collapses on his injured foot.
(b) Trips and falls.
(c) Bumps his head.
(d) Bumps his shoulder.

14. What does the narrator want to portray burning in a bookshop?
(a) The poor.
(b) History.
(c) Brains.
(d) Politicians.

15. Why does the narrator go into the grocery shop again after taking the extra change?
(a) To borrow another candle.
(b) To try and get more.
(c) To steal a loaf of bread.
(d) To confess.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what does the narrator insist the cart of potatoes is filled?

2. Who does the narrator realize is responsible for sending the 10-kroner note?

3. Who comes looking for the narrator as he is kicked out of his lodgings?

4. What part of the narrator's body is injured when he is hit by the cart?

5. What does the landlady give to the narrator that he refuses?

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