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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 language does the sailor on board the Copégoro speak?
(a) Finnish.
(b) Swedish.
(c) Russian.
(d) Spanish.

2. On what does the narrator jump in despair?
(a) His jacket.
(b) A puddle.
(c) His hat.
(d) One foot.

3. What color dress is Ylayali wearing when the narrator sees her with The Duke?
(a) Blue.
(b) White.
(c) Red.
(d) Black.

4. What does the narrator see out of his window?
(a) A courtyard.
(b) A fire.
(c) An apothecary.
(d) Children playing.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Chief doing at the pier?

2. Where does the narrator pass as he walks home from stealing a cab ride?

3. Why does Queeny think the narrator has been fired from Christie's?

4. What does the sailor say they need?

5. In what language was Hunger originally written?

Short Essay Questions

1. A few days later, why is the narrator still sleeping in the family room?

2. What happens when the narrator goes to the grocer's to ask for a candle on credit?

3. Where does the narrator decide to live?

4. Who lives in the family room?

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

6. What happens to make the narrator lose faith in his play?

7. How does Queeny offend the narrator?

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

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

10. How does the narrator act towards Ylayali once they are upstairs?

(see the answer keys)

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