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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. How does the narrator see Ylayali when she reaches her hand out to him as he leaves?
(a) With loathing.
(b) With adoration.
(c) With mistrust.
(d) With fear.

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

3. Who tries breaking up the children's fight physically?
(a) The narrator.
(b) The landlady.
(c) The landlady's son.
(d) A policeman.

4. Who stops the landlady from evicting the narrator into the night?
(a) Her husband.
(b) The children.
(c) The hired girl.
(d) The old man.

5. By what is the narrator hit?
(a) A bread-cart.
(b) A hay-rack.
(c) A grocer's cart.
(d) A butcher's cart.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is the main character of the narrator's proposed play, 'The Sign of the Cross'?

3. What season is it at the beginning of Part Four?

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

5. What does the narrator think the guest who takes his room does for a living?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why do Ylayali and the narrator go up to her apartment?

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

4. Why do you think Ylayali is disappointed in the narrator?

5. Who lives in the family room?

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

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

8. Describe how the narrator leaves Ylayali's apartment.

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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