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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 landlady offer Billy to eat as they sit together in the sitting room?
(a) A ginger biscuit.
(b) A cinnamon bun.
(c) A cucumber sandwich.
(d) A piece of bread and butter.

2. From what town did Mr. Temple come?
(a) York.
(b) Bristol.
(c) Leeds.
(d) Sheffield.

3. According to the landlady, what school had Mr. Mulholland attended when he came to the bed and breakfast?
(a) Imperial College.
(b) Cambridge.
(c) King's College.
(d) Oxford.

4. What does Billy assume about the landlady's past?
(a) That she was jilted at the altar.
(b) That she had never married.
(c) That she lost a husband in an accident.
(d) That she lost a son in the war.

5. By comparing the tray to a frisky horse, the narrator is using what literary device?
(a) Slant rhyme.
(b) Idiom.
(c) Hyperbole.
(d) Foreshadowing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What information does Billy add to the guestbook?

2. How does Billy describe the landlady's hands as they are together in the sitting room?

3. In order to lower the price, the landlady offers to eliminate what?

4. According to the landlady, who stays on the first floor of the bed and breakfast?

5. As the landlady is showing Billy around the bed and breakfast, what name does she accidentally call him?

Short Essay Questions

1. According to Billy, what are his plans for the night, as he tells the landlady in his room?

2. What information does Billy discover in the guestbook?

3. How much does it cost to stay at the bed and breakfast? What does Billy think of the price?

4. What request does the landlady make of Billy before he goes to bed?

5. When she comes into the sitting room, how does the landlady describe her previous guests?

6. According to Billy, how does the landlady smell? Of what does the smell remind him?

7. According to the landlady, why does she always keep a room ready?

8. What reaction does Billy have to the information he finds in the guestbook?

9. As Billy waits in the sitting room for the landlady, how does he consider his surroundings? How does he consider himself?

10. What does Billy think of the landlady as he enters the bed and breakfast? Of what does she remind him?

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