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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 the name of the ship about which the narrator asks the cripple?

2. What does the landlord call the old man?

3. What kind of cake does the narrator take from the seller's table?

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

5. What noise disturbs the narrator from continuing with his play?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Who lives in the family room?

5. How does the narrator act towards Ylayali once they are upstairs?

6. What happens when the narrator is finally kicked out?

7. Why do Ylayali and the narrator go up to her apartment?

8. What happens when the narrator goes to the grocer's to ask for a candle on credit?

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

10. How does Queeny offend the narrator?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Look at the structure of the book. How does the author drive the narrative? How does the book's structure express the book's themes?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the values of the late 1800s. In what way are the characters products of their time? Does the book express the changes in either Norway or America at the time?

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