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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 does the narrator owe Hans Pauli?
(a) Some money.
(b) A pair of trousers.
(c) A blanket.
(d) A pair of shoes.

2. What does the narrator tell the clerk at Semb's is wrapped in his blanket?
(a) Important documents.
(b) A sculpture.
(c) Two vases.
(d) A dove.

3. What does Miss Andersen sell?
(a) Baskets.
(b) Shrouds.
(c) Fish.
(d) Groceries.

4. Where does the old man tell the narrator he had been the day before?
(a) Oslo.
(b) Sande.
(c) Christiana.
(d) Dranmen.

5. Hans Pauli Pettersen is the son of whom?
(a) A farmer.
(b) A journalist.
(c) A cabinet minister.
(d) A policeman.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator make a habit of eating to stave off hunger?

2. What does the narrator find on the table of his apartment?

3. What is on the menu at the Steam Kitchen?

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

5. What does the pawnbroker have attached to his door that makes a distinctive sound?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What story does the narrator tell the old man?

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

4. Why is the narrator embarrassed by his blanket, and what does he do with it?

5. Why do the passers-by anger the narrator?

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

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

8. Why does the narrator start crying?

9. Why does the narrator stop to read the late editions of the newspapers, and for what does he apply?

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

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