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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. Who tries breaking up the children's fight physically?

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

3. Who is the main character of the narrator's proposed play, 'The Sign of the Cross'?

4. What does the narrator knock over as he struggles with Ylayali?

5. Where does the narrator recognize the cake-seller working?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Queeny offend the narrator?

4. Why is the captain of the Copégoro reluctant to hire the narrator, and what is his compromise?

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

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

7. Where does the narrator decide to live?

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

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

10. Why exactly does the narrator refuse the Chief's offer of an advance?

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

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 3

Hunger is written in the first person. Why do you think the author chose this voice? How do you think the effect of the book would be changed were the book written in the third person?

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