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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What color dress is Ylayali wearing when the narrator sees her with The Duke?
(a) Black.
(b) White.
(c) Blue.
(d) Red.

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

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

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

5. How does Ylayali hide her shyness at her opened corset?
(a) By scolding him.
(b) By running away.
(c) By asking about his hair.
(d) By pushing him away.

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

7. Who starts singing while the narrator is staring out of the window?
(a) The evicted family.
(b) The landlady.
(c) The narrator.
(d) The landlady's hired girl.

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

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

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

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

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

13. Who does the narrator realize is responsible for sending the 10-kroner note?
(a) Hans Pauli.
(b) Ylayali.
(c) The Director.
(d) The Chief.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the character Kierulf supposed to trade?

2. Who tries breaking up the children's fight physically?

3. What does the narrator want to give to the small boy who had been spat upon?

4. What language does the sailor on board the Copégoro speak?

5. For what does the narrator ask from the lame man at the railway pier?

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