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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Twelve.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After Cincinnatus gets the news about the new prisoner, what does his cot seem to change into?
(a) A door.
(b) A bush.
(c) A horse.
(d) A boat.

2. What time does Rodrig Ivanovich appear?
(a) Exactly at ten o'clock.
(b) Fifteen minues early, at quarter to nine.
(c) Exactly at noon.
(d) Twenty minutes after his scheduled arrival at eleven.

3. What happens when Marthe's grandfather goes to light Marthe's father's cigarette?
(a) The lighter goes out.
(b) Marthe's father lights the cigarette first.
(c) He can't make the lighter alight.
(d) He drops the lighter.

4. Where does the lawyer take Cincinnatus during their meeting?
(a) The prison roof.
(b) Cincinnatus's home.
(c) The prison basement.
(d) The lawyer's home.

5. Where on the table does Rodion set the vase of flowers?
(a) Not quite in the center.
(b) Right on the edge.
(c) Not quite at the edge.
(d) Exactly in the center.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who finds what the lawyer was looking for at the beginning of his meeting with Cincinnatus?

2. What does Diomedon's right leg resemble?

3. What does Cincinnatus think is happening when he wakes up the third day?

4. What does the director give to Pierre?

5. What is the director's attitude toward M'sieur Pierre?

(see the answer key)

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