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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. Whom does Billy ask to recommend a place to stay?
(a) His father.
(b) His boss.
(c) The porter.
(d) A passerby.

2. 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 landladies.
(b) Rapacious neighbors.
(c) Rapacious pets.
(d) Rapacious tenants.

3. The use of the word "rapacious" constitutes what type of literary device?
(a) Hyperbole.
(b) Simile.
(c) Foreshadowing.
(d) Oxymoron.

4. According to Billy, what sort of face does the landlady have?
(a) Large and red.
(b) Round and pink.
(c) Small and white.
(d) Oval and tan.

5. Upon staring in the Bed and Breakfast's window, Billy finds himself staring into what room?
(a) A bedroom.
(b) A kitchen.
(c) A study.
(d) A parlor.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the buildings surrounding Billy now appear?

2. How far must Billy walk to get from the train to his chosen place of lodging?

3. How has Billy arrived in this new city?

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

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. Who is the protagonist of the story? What does the reader learn about him as the story begins?

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

3. What is odd about how the landlady opens the door after Billy rings the bell? To what does he compare her?

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

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

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

7. What type of narrator does the story have?

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

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

10. What happens when Billy attempts to walk away from the bed and breakfast?

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