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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 is the cripple on the railway pier?
(a) Queeny.
(b) The editor.
(c) The welt-binder.
(d) Jans the stable boy.

2. What does the narrator do as he walks out backwards?
(a) Trips and falls.
(b) Bumps his shoulder.
(c) Bumps his head.
(d) Collapses on his injured foot.

3. Who starts singing while the narrator is staring out of the window?
(a) The landlady.
(b) The evicted family.
(c) The narrator.
(d) The landlady's hired girl.

4. What is the Copégoro carrying to Leeds?
(a) Grain.
(b) Ballast.
(c) Coal.
(d) Wool.

5. Why does the narrator go into the grocery shop again after taking the extra change?
(a) To try and get more.
(b) To steal a loaf of bread.
(c) To borrow another candle.
(d) To confess.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the weather like on the morning of the narrator's date with Ylayali?

2. Who does the narrator say invented conscience?

3. Of what object belonging to Ylayali's does the narrator think when he sees the green-haired Christ on the wall?

4. What do their two beating hearts sound like to the narrator?

5. What does the narrator want to give to the small boy who had been spat upon?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the narrator dodge the street whore's invitation?

2. What ails the narrator at the start of Part 3?

3. What convinces the narrator that he is sane?

4. What happens when the narrator is finally kicked out?

5. Who lives in the family room?

6. Why exactly does the narrator refuse the Chief's offer of an advance?

7. Where does the narrator decide to live?

8. What happens to the narrator that makes him aware of his mental sluggishness?

9. How does Queeny say he knows Ylayali?

10. Why does the narrator put himself in view of The Chief?

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