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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 lights the narrator's cell?

2. Who does the narrator overtake as he leaves the park to return to the pawnshop?

3. What does the narrator discover in the darkness of his cell?

4. For which paper does the narrator say he works?

5. What type of business does Fabian Olsen own?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does the narrator view the red rocking chair when he decides to leave his apartment for good?

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

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

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

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

8. Why does the narrator think of his banker friend?

9. Why does the narrator suspect Scissors of trying to drive him away?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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 3

Discuss the statement at the beginning of the novel, "This wonderous city that no one leaves before it has made its marks upon him." How does the author develop the ambiguity in this sentence? How do the other characters in the book seem to be living?

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