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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the unnamed man taking to the pawnshop when he bumps into the narrator?
(a) An engagement ring.
(b) A watch.
(c) An overcoat.
(d) A top hat.

2. Of what in particular is the narrator frightened?
(a) Being discovered.
(b) A nail-hole.
(c) The sound of the rain.
(d) His hunger.

3. How does the narrator get Pastor Levison's address?
(a) Pascha's Bookstore.
(b) A policeman.
(c) A beggar.
(d) Church of Our Saviour.

4. About whom is the narrator's sketch?
(a) Correggio.
(b) Borromini.
(c) Boucher.
(d) Watteau.

5. Where is the editor sitting when the narrator arrives back at the newspaper office?
(a) Facing the wall.
(b) Behind the door.
(c) Facing the window.
(d) Watching the door.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator want to buy when he tries to find the banker for the second time?

2. What does the narrator leave behind when he is asked to move on by the policeman?

3. What does the policeman see inside the paper cone?

4. What is the narrator rejected at the fire department for wearing?

5. What does the narrator tell the clerk at Semb's is wrapped in his blanket?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the narrator find sitting on his bedside table when he returns to his old apartment?

2. How do the hayracks treat the narrator?

3. Why do the two shopkeepers refuse the narrator money?

4. How does the narrator react to the organ-grinder's daughter's silence?

5. Why does the narrator become annoyed with the old man?

6. How is the narrator feeling when he leaves the apartment?

7. What lie does the narrator invent to explain why he returned for the pencil?

8. What stories does the narrator tell to explain the package with his green blanket inside?

9. Describe the narrator's apartment at the beginning of the novel.

10. How does the narrator punish himself for nearly asking the editor for money?

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