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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 game does Billy look forward to playing at the pub?
(a) Darts.
(b) Billiards.
(c) Quoits.
(d) Pitch penny.

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(b) As outdated.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

3. After Billy finishes looking in the front window, why does Billy plan to walk to The Bell and Dragon?
(a) To stay at the pub instead of at the bed and breakfast.
(b) To better compare the pub to the bed and breakfast.
(c) To tell the landlord of the pub that he will stay at the bed and breakfast instead.
(d) To walk and stretch his legs.

4. Billy wants to be as successful as whom?
(a) The head honchos.
(b) The muckety mucks.
(c) The big shots.
(d) The top bananas.

5. Billy compares the mesmerizing object to what?
(a) A swinging pendulum.
(b) A rotating coin.
(c) A bottomless chasm.
(d) A large black eye.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the dog that Billy sees doing?

2. As Billy walks, what types of buildings line the street?

3. What are kippers?

4. What is the name of the place Billy plans to stay the night?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the narrator describe the weather at the beginning of the story?

2. What does the word "rapacious" mean? How might this description foreshadow what is to come?

3. Where does Billy initially plan to stay while in Bath? Why?

4. Upon seeing the window of the bed and breakfast, how does Billy feel? How does he react?

5. As Billy stares through the front window of the bed and breakfast, what does he immediately see inside?

6. What does the presence of the animals lead Billy to think?

7. As Billy stares through the front window of the bed and breakfast, what animals does he see inside? What are they doing?

8. What type of narrator does the story have?

9. Who is Mr. Greenslade and what directions did he give to Billy, as Billy remembers at the beginning of the story?

10. What does Billy tell the landlady when she opens the front door? What does she say in reply?

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