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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What does the landlord say is wrong with the old man?
(a) He is fevered.
(b) He is violent.
(c) He is simple-minded.
(d) He is paralyzed.

7. What color are the hired girl's eyes?
(a) Blue.
(b) Green.
(c) Brown.
(d) Grey.

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

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

10. What noise disturbs the narrator from continuing with his play?
(a) Children playing.
(b) Children shouting.
(c) Children laughing.
(d) Children crying.

11. With what do the landlady's daughters tease the old man?
(a) Pebbles.
(b) Feathers.
(c) Sticks.
(d) Straws.

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

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

14. Of what object belonging to Ylayali's does the narrator think when he sees the green-haired Christ on the wall?
(a) Her spittoon.
(b) Her tablecloth.
(c) Her scarf.
(d) Her picture frame.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What reason does the narrator give for abandoning his chance at warm lodgings?

2. Where does the narrator suggest to go with Ylayali?

3. What is the weather like on the morning of the narrator's date with Ylayali?

4. Where does the hired girl say she has seen the narrator?

5. Where had Queeny met Ylayali for the first time?

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