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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 does the narrator want to give to the small boy who had been spat upon?
(a) His pencil.
(b) A letter.
(c) A krone.
(d) His last cake.

2. Where does the narrator pass as he walks home from stealing a cab ride?
(a) The police station.
(b) A gallery.
(c) His old apartment.
(d) The newspaper offices.

3. What is the character Kierulf supposed to trade?
(a) Tobacco.
(b) Wool.
(c) Grain.
(d) Leather.

4. What is the name of the ship about which the narrator asks the cripple?
(a) The Nun.
(b) Christiana.
(c) The Donau.
(d) Copégoro.

5. What does the narrator think the guest who takes his room does for a living?
(a) A politician.
(b) An actor.
(c) A sailor.
(d) A blacksmith.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the narrator recognize the cake-seller working?

2. Where does the narrator leave his offering for the boy to find?

3. For what does Ylayali reach that tells the narrator she wants him to leave?

4. What does the landlady ask the narrator to look over?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does the narrator react to seeing Ylayali with 'The Duke'?

3. Why does the narrator not speak to the woman in black when he first sees her outside his apartment?

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

5. Where does the narrator decide to live?

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

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

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

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

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

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