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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. Who suggests to the narrator that he should ask to be locked up?
(a) The Duke.
(b) Hans Pauli.
(c) Pastor Levison.
(d) Cisler.

2. What name does the narrator give to the Officer on Duty?
(a) Hennechen.
(b) Hans Pauli.
(c) Andreas Tangen.
(d) Pascha.

3. What does the narrator call the pawnshop owner?
(a) Uncle.
(b) Brother.
(c) Father.
(d) Godfather.

4. Where is the narrator sitting at the beginning of Part Two?
(a) A park.
(b) A cemetery.
(c) A town square.
(d) An inn.

5. What does the clerk of the grocery store wrap up for the narrator when he enters?
(a) A candle.
(b) Some fruit.
(c) Some milk.
(d) A loaf of bread.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the woman thinking of buying from the butcher's shop?

3. What type of business does Fabian Olsen own?

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

5. What makes the narrator cry?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the policemen throughout the novel treat the narrator?

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

3. How does the narrator view the red rocking chair when he decides to leave his apartment for good?

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

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

6. What happens when the narrator angrily rings the bell of a random third-floor apartment?

7. For what does C. Zacharias Bartel think the narrator has visited him, and why does he not want the narrator to see it?

8. Why does the narrator give his banker friend his tie?

9. Why does Mr. Christie reject the narrator?

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

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