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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 buy for his breakfast?
(a) A side of beef.
(b) Some eggs.
(c) Bread and cheese.
(d) A plate of potatoes.

2. What does the policeman see inside the paper cone?
(a) A feather.
(b) Silver.
(c) A krone.
(d) Nothing.

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

4. What does the narrator intend to buy with the remaining money?
(a) Some soap.
(b) Some paper.
(c) Breakfast.
(d) A new shirt.

5. What does the narrator want to buy when he tries to find the banker for the second time?
(a) A candle.
(b) New shoes.
(c) Some food.
(d) A pencil.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does the narrator get Pastor Levison's address?

3. What does the narrator worry about as he sits outside Our Saviour's Church?

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

5. Of whom does the stonecutter remind the narrator?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Mr. Christie reject the narrator?

3. Why does the narrator start crying?

4. How does the narrator treat the two women?

5. Why does the narrator decide to return to his old apartment?

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

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

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

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

10. Describe the narrator's fantasy of Princess Ylayali's castle.

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