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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does the landlady ask the narrator to look over?
(a) A grocery bill.
(b) A newspaper article.
(c) An eviction notice.
(d) A letter.

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

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

6. 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.

7. What does the narrator see out of his window?
(a) A courtyard.
(b) A fire.
(c) Children playing.
(d) An apothecary.

8. What is the name of the ship about which the narrator asks the cripple?
(a) The Nun.
(b) Christiana.
(c) The Donau.
(d) Copégoro.

9. What is the Copégoro unloading?
(a) Grain.
(b) Salt.
(c) Wood.
(d) Coal.

10. What language does the sailor on board the Copégoro speak?
(a) Finnish.
(b) Russian.
(c) Spanish.
(d) Swedish.

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

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

13. Who comes looking for the narrator as he is kicked out of his lodgings?
(a) A messenger.
(b) Ylayali.
(c) The police.
(d) The Chief.

14. Who does the narrator see first on the morning of his eviction?
(a) Patrolmen.
(b) Lantern-men.
(c) Sailors.
(d) Drunks.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the character Kierulf supposed to trade?

2. What does the narrator want to do before leaving Ylayali?

3. By what is the narrator hit?

4. For what does Ylayali reach that tells the narrator she wants him to leave?

5. What is the nationality of the ship Copégoro?

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