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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. The description of the wind in the opening paragraphs of the story employs what literary technique?
(a) Personification.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Hyperbole.
(d) Simile.

2. What does the word "rapacious" mean?
(a) Greedy and covetous.
(b) Melancholy and depressed.
(c) Angry and demanding.
(d) Kind and gentle.

3. What is the name of the place Billy plans to stay the night?
(a) The Bed and Daisy.
(b) The Bat and Griffin.
(c) The Bell and Dragon.
(d) The Bison and Phoenix.

4. According to Billy, what is "extraordinarily strong"?
(a) His compulsion to run.
(b) His compulsion for success.
(c) His compulsion to meet the landlady.
(d) His compulsion to enter the bed and breakfast.

5. As Billy regards the front window of the bed and breakfast, how does he feel?
(a) Immediately curious about it.
(b) Immediately sickened by it.
(c) Immediately repulsed by it.
(d) Immediately drawn to it.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Billy first sees the landlady, he compares her to what object?

2. As Billy regards his surroundings, he notices that all the buildings once had what color facades?

3. To whom is Billy told to report while in this new city?

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

5. When Billy tells the landlady he is inquiring about a place to stay, she says what about the state of the room?

Short Essay Questions

1. What initially frightens Billy about the bed and breakfast? What does he think about bed and breakfasts in general?

2. What trait does Billy believe is essential to success? What makes him think this?

3. What type of narrator does the story have?

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

5. As Billy stares through the front window of the bed and breakfast, what objects does he see inside? What is the effect of these objects on Billy?

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

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

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

9. Describe the landlady as she appears when Billy first encounters her.

10. As Billy walks through town, what does Billy see in the front window of the bed and breakfast? What objects are there?

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