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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 is the landlady doing while the narrator is trying to write in the family-room?
(a) Sewing.
(b) Cooking.
(c) Cleaning.
(d) Talking.

2. What noise disturbs the narrator from continuing with his play?
(a) Children laughing.
(b) Children playing.
(c) Children shouting.
(d) Children crying.

3. Where does the hired girl say she has seen the narrator?
(a) The Promenade.
(b) The Royal Castle.
(c) The Opera House.
(d) The Church of Our Saviour.

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

5. What does the narrator want to portray burning in a bookshop?
(a) Politicians.
(b) History.
(c) Brains.
(d) The poor.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the narrator see out of his window?

3. Which day is the narrator to meet Ylayali?

4. What is the character Kierulf supposed to trade?

5. What sound does the narrator hear when he is working in the sailor's room?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Queeny say he knows Ylayali?

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

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

4. Why does the narrator still try to force himself upon Ylayali?

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

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

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

8. Who lives in the family room?

9. Why does the narrator not eat all of his cakes?

10. Why is the captain of the Copégoro reluctant to hire the narrator, and what is his compromise?

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