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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator ask Naz to do at the very end of Part III?
(a) Find Catherine.
(b) Plan the narrator's wedding.
(c) Procure the permission to use the area on Coldharbour Lane where a significant event occurred.
(d) Buy him a new scarf.

2. What natural element is the narrator dismayed with in his building in Chapter 13?
(a) The plants.
(b) The air.
(c) The sunlight.
(d) The bugs.

3. Where does the narrator like to spend a lot of time in his apartment building?
(a) In the bath.
(b) In the courtyard.
(c) On the roof.
(d) In the stairwell.

4. What is one reason the narrator feels justified in making such particular and peculiar demands of his staff?
(a) He is very smart.
(b) People have told him they are happy to do the work.
(c) His lawyer told him he can be more demanding now.
(d) He is paying them enormous amounts of money.

5. Who makes models of buildings for the narrator?
(a) Hartley.
(b) Jennifer.
(c) Roger.
(d) James.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the narrator threaten to kick out of his building in Part IV?

2. What happens to the narrator when he begins pouring over diagrams of the killing on Coldharbour Lane?

3. What food does the narrator ask Naz to order for both of them one night soon before the apartment project is finished?

4. What does the narrator ask the concierge to do differently in Chapter 13?

5. What does the narrator want to happen with the old woman cooking the liver in Part III?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Part IV, what kind of reenactment does the narrator ask for that is a departure from the other ones he has asked ror?

2. What happens to the cats on the roof of the building routinely, and how does the narrator handle this problem?

3. In Part III, what particular aspect of his own new apartment do the workers have trouble getting right?

4. Why does the narrator get so angry at the pianist in Part III?

5. What happens to the narrator in the days immediately following his homicide reenactment?

6. What does the narrator do with Roger's models of the various scenes that interest him?

7. What interaction does the narrator have with the old woman who cooks liver, and why is it important?

8. What task does the narrator often ask Naz to perform for him that is outside the remit of his original purpose?

9. What does the doctor who examines the narrator conclude about the narrator in Part IV?

10. What does the narrator not like, and fail to consider, about the way the sun is hitting the floor in his apartment building?

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