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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is in the old man's paper-wrapped package in the end?

2. What tickets does the Officer of the Day hand out?

3. Where does the narrator decide to sleep for the night?

4. What type of business does Fabian Olsen own?

5. What of the narrator's is whipped by the hayracks?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the narrator find sitting on his bedside table when he returns to his old apartment?

2. Why is the narrator interested in the newspaper-wrapped package of the old man?

3. Why is the narrator embarrassed by his blanket, and what does he do with it?

4. For what does C. Zacharias Bartel think the narrator has visited him, and why does he not want the narrator to see it?

5. Why does the narrator start crying?

6. How does the narrator react to the organ-grinder's daughter's silence?

7. Why do the two shopkeepers refuse the narrator money?

8. How do the policemen throughout the novel treat the narrator?

9. Why does the narrator decide to return to his old apartment?

10. How do the hayracks treat the narrator?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Identify the main themes of the story. In what way are these themes relevant to the period? How does the author use character and setting to express these themes?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the author's life. In what way is his life and personality reflected in the book? What was his experience of starvation and poverty?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the significance of the meaning of 'kuboaa'. Why is the narrator afraid it might only mean yarn? What does this tell you about his self-regard?

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