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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the narrator resort to writing after losing his room?
(a) The stairway.
(b) The roof.
(c) The hall.
(d) The street.

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

3. Of which room is the landlord peeking through the keyhole?
(a) The living-room.
(b) The kitchen.
(c) The hired girl's bedroom.
(d) The sailor's bedroom.

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

5. What season is it at the beginning of Part Four?
(a) Spring.
(b) Summer.
(c) Winter.
(d) Fall.

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

7. What does the landlord call the old man?
(a) Old donkey.
(b) Old horse.
(c) Old goat.
(d) Old pig.

8. Where had Queeny met Ylayali for the first time?
(a) At a restaurant.
(b) In a hotel.
(c) By the river.
(d) By a bookstore.

9. By what is the narrator hit?
(a) A bread-cart.
(b) A butcher's cart.
(c) A grocer's cart.
(d) A hay-rack.

10. What does Ylayali accuse the narrator of being?
(a) Stupid.
(b) Over-enthusiastic.
(c) Shy.
(d) Bold.

11. For what does Ylayali reach that tells the narrator she wants him to leave?
(a) Her shawl.
(b) Her hat.
(c) Her cape.
(d) Her blouse.

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

13. What does the narrator knock over as he struggles with Ylayali?
(a) A lamp.
(b) The candle.
(c) A vase.
(d) The table.

14. Who is the cripple on the railway pier?
(a) Queeny.
(b) Jans the stable boy.
(c) The editor.
(d) The welt-binder.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. On which floor is the narrator's guest room in the Food and Lodging for Travellers?

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

3. Why does Ylayali move away when the narrator tries to take her hand the first time?

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

5. How does the narrator see Ylayali when she reaches her hand out to him as he leaves?

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