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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. To whom does the narrator give his stolen money?
(a) A cake-seller.
(b) An apothecary.
(c) A beggar.
(d) A child.

2. For which paper does the narrator say he works?
(a) Viking.
(b) Evening Times.
(c) Afternoon Times.
(d) Morning Times.

3. What does the narrator make from the blank piece of paper in his pocket?
(a) An envelope.
(b) A boat.
(c) A cornucopia.
(d) A bird.

4. Where does the narrator say he is sending the package?
(a) Tangiers.
(b) Moscow.
(c) Smyrna.
(d) Beirut.

5. Where does the narrator tell the old man he lives?
(a) Karl Johan Street.
(b) St. Olaf's Place.
(c) Royal Gardens.
(d) Graensen Street.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what reason does C. Zacharias Bartel think the narrator has visited him?

2. What does the narrator offer the old man who sits down on his bench?

3. What does the narrator tell Queeny is in his package?

4. What is the unnamed man taking to the pawnshop when he bumps into the narrator?

5. Who wakes the narrator when he falls asleep on the park bench

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the narrator treat the two women?

2. What criticism does the editor give the narrator over his articles?

3. How has the narrator's poverty already been revealed to the reader?

4. Why is the narrator glad when the stable-boy asks him for five kroner?

5. Why does the narrator suspect Scissors of trying to drive him away?

6. How does the narrator react to the old cripple walking in front of him?

7. What are the narrator's worries about the word 'kuboaa'?

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

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

10. Of what does the narrator become terrified in the dark?

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