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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 does the narrator call the pawnshop owner?

2. Of what are the walls of the final chamber made in the narrator's fantasy?

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

4. What does the narrator find on the table of his apartment?

5. What does the narrator try to give to the organ-grinder's daughter for her father?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What are the narrator's worries about the word 'kuboaa'?

3. What happens when the narrator angrily rings the bell of a random third-floor apartment?

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

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

6. How does the narrator punish himself for nearly asking the editor for money?

7. Why does the narrator start crying?

8. How is the narrator feeling when he leaves the apartment?

9. What stories does the narrator tell to explain the package with his green blanket inside?

10. Why does the narrator become annoyed with the old man?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine the author's writing style. How would you describe the author's prose style? What kind of vocabulary does he use? What meaning does the author's style give to the story?

Essay Topic 2

Fantasy plays a large role in this novel. Discuss the narrator and Ylayali's fantasies of one another. How do they differ from reality? How do you think they affect the character's actions?

Essay Topic 3

Aside from the main character, examine the way the author uses other characters in the book. How are they introduced and removed from the story? What impact do they have on the narrator?

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