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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 reason does the narrator give for abandoning his chance at warm lodgings?
(a) Insanity.
(b) Stupidity.
(c) Pride.
(d) Hunger.

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

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

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

5. What happens to the narrator after visiting the grocer's for the second time?
(a) He develops a fever.
(b) He is sent to prison.
(c) He gets work.
(d) He becomes homeless.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Of which room is the landlord peeking through the keyhole?

3. How does the narrator see Ylayali when she reaches her hand out to him as he leaves?

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

5. What color dress is Ylayali wearing when the narrator sees her with The Duke?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is the narrator moved into the family room?

2. How does Queeny say he knows Ylayali?

3. Who lives in the family room?

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

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

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

7. What convinces the narrator that he is sane?

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

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

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

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