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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 3-4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are kippers?
(a) A type of music.
(b) A type of vegetable.
(c) A type of fish.
(d) A type of bird.

2. According to the narrator, how does Billy feel in his new clothes?
(a) Clean.
(b) Fine.
(c) Successful.
(d) Swanky.

3. According to Billy as he looks in the front window, what is the second negative association he has with staying in a bed and breakfast?
(a) Rapacious pets.
(b) Rapacious neighbors.
(c) Rapacious landladies.
(d) Rapacious tenants.

4. While staring in the window of the Bed and Breakfast, how does Billy describe the furniture?
(a) As grotesque.
(b) As pretty.
(c) As outdated.
(d) As pleasant.

5. According to Billy as he looks in the front window, what is the first negative association he has with staying in a bed and breakfast?
(a) Burned Brussels sprouts.
(b) Boiled broccoli.
(c) Watery cabbage.
(d) Stewed onions.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the air described the night of Billy's arrival in town?

2. What mesmerizes Billy as he tries to walk away from the bed and breakfast?

3. When Billy first sees the landlady, how old does he believe her to be?

4. How is the wind described the night of Billy's arrival in town?

5. What type of narrator is present in "The Landlady"?

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