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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What does the landlady give to the narrator that he refuses?
(a) A blanket.
(b) Bread and butter.
(c) Bowl of soup.
(d) Beer.

10. At whom does the narrator throw his money?
(a) His landlady.
(b) A beggar.
(c) The police.
(d) A cake-seller.

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

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

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

14. On which floor is the narrator's guest room in the Food and Lodging for Travellers?
(a) Second floor.
(b) Basement.
(c) Third floor.
(d) Ground floor.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who comes looking for the narrator as he is kicked out of his lodgings?

3. Who starts singing while the narrator is staring out of the window?

4. Of what object belonging to Ylayali's does the narrator think when he sees the green-haired Christ on the wall?

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

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