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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. Where does the narrator try for money right after being refused by Cisler?
(a) His landlord.
(b) A yarn shop.
(c) An old friend.
(d) A priest.

2. Of whom does the stonecutter remind the narrator?
(a) A debt collector.
(b) A bookkeeper.
(c) A banker.
(d) His brother.

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

4. Why can't the narrator sell his glasses?
(a) They're bent.
(b) They're broken.
(c) They're steel-rimmed.
(d) They're scratched.

5. For what change does the editor ask in the sketch?
(a) Less simplistic.
(b) More emotional.
(c) More popular.
(d) More avant-garde.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator call the pawnshop owner?

2. What does the narrator claim the woman is losing?

3. At what does the old man stare when the narrator gives him his the money?

4. What makes the narrator cry?

5. What has the narrator lost when he arrives back home?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why does the narrator start crying?

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

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

6. Why is the narrator put into a reserved cell?

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

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. Why do the two shopkeepers refuse the narrator money?

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