"The LandLady"

What can the parrot’s cage foreshadow and symbolize after reading the resolution?

• a. Billy’s courage and travel
• b. Billy’s entrapment and danger
• c. Billy’s freedom and opportunity
• d. Billy’s future and hope

What is the central conflict of “The Landlady,” unbeknownst to Billy until the resolution?

• a. person vs. person
• b. person vs. self
• c. person vs. society
• d. person vs. technology

What is ironic about how Billy regards the bed and breakfast initially?

• a. Billy thinks it’s a bad sign that there are animals there, and he’s right because he’s not safe.
• b. Billy thinks it’s a bad sign that there are animals there, but they’re stuffed, so he’s okay and safe.
• c. Billy thinks it’s a good sign that there are animals there, and he’s right because he’s safe inside.
• d. Billy thinks it’s a good sign that there are animals there, but they’re stuffed and not a good sign.

What is ironic about the landlady saying that Billy needs to sign her guest book because she doesn’t want to break any laws?

• a. The landlady is a sweet, harmless, and generous soul.
• b. The landlady is breaking far more serious laws.
• c. The landlady is an elderly but successful businesswoman.
• d. The landlady is an old and forgetful woman.

What is the primary irony of “The Landlady”?

• a. Billy believes Bath is a boring, dreary town, but it turns out to be more exciting than he thinks.
• b. Billy believes the landlady is a harmless, generous soul, but she’s really a deceptive serial killer.
• c. Billy believes the landlady is slightly off her rocker, and she is slightly off her rocker.
• d. Billy believes Bath is home to duplicitous, evil people and he’s right because of the landlady.

All of the following are the implied and explicit landlady’s pets currently except whom? Who is implied will be the landlady’s next pet?

• a. the parrot
• b. the dachshund
• c. C.Mulholland and G. Temple
• d. Billy Weaver

All of the following direct quotes about Billy’s situation given the resolution are ironic except which?

• a. “After all, she was not only harmless – there was no question about that – but she was also quite obviously a kind and generous soul.”
• b. “Animals were usually a good sign in a place like this, Billy told himself.”
• c. “He was wearing a new navy-blue overcoat, a new brown trilby hat, and a new brown suit, and he was feeling fine.”
• d. “I’m a lucky fellow, he thought, rubbing his hands. This is a bit of all right.”

When the landlady says that Christopher Mulholland and Gregory Temple never left the bed and breakfast, what does author Roald Dahl imply?

• a. Christopher and Gregory are dead and stuffed in the bed and breakfast.
• b. Christopher and Gregory are guests who are alive and well. Billy will meet them soon.
• c. Christopher and Gregory are guests who realized who the landlady really is and escaped.
• d. Christopher and Gregory are not who Billy thinks they are, and he is simply confused.

What is the implied resolution of “The Landlady”?

• a. Billy will be drugged and killed by the landlady’s tea and join her other pets.
• b. Billy will go to bed and wake up to go to his job in the morning.
• c. Billy will leave this bed and breakfast and stay at The Bell and Dragon instead.
• d. Billy will seek his revenge against the landlady and report her to the police.

What does “The Landlady” imply as a theme?

• a. Appearances can be deceiving.
• b. Evil deeds are punished in ways you might not expect.
• c. It takes faith in yourself to thrive in a harsh world.
• d. Love is the glue that binds the universe together.