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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What do their two beating hearts sound like to the narrator?
(a) Horses.
(b) Music.
(c) Drumbeats.
(d) Marching.

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

4. In what language was Hunger originally written?
(a) Swedish.
(b) Norwegian.
(c) French.
(d) German.

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

6. What sound does the narrator hear when he is working in the sailor's room?
(a) Laughter.
(b) A fight.
(c) Humming.
(d) Swearing.

7. Why does Ylayali move away when the narrator tries to take her hand the first time?
(a) He is too bold.
(b) He bores her.
(c) She doesn't like his appearance.
(d) She is testing him.

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

9. Where is the Copégoro going after Leeds?
(a) Tangiers.
(b) Cadiz.
(c) Lisbon.
(d) New York.

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

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

12. About what does the narrator joke to himself as he talks to himself in his room?
(a) Fish.
(b) Writing.
(c) His landlady.
(d) Cheese.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator act on leaving Ylayali?

2. Who stops the landlady from evicting the narrator into the night?

3. What is the character Kierulf supposed to trade?

4. Which day is the narrator to meet Ylayali?

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

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