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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Pierre lecture Cincinnatus on, in the evening after Emmie tells Cincinnatus she is planning his escape?
(a) Pleasure, starting with erotic pleasure.
(b) The nature of virtue and obedience.
(c) The conflict between man's spiritual and earthly natures.
(d) Love, starting with brotherly love.

2. What is the one difference between Marthe's two identical twin brothers?
(a) One is missing a hand, and he keeps his false hand in is pocket.
(b) One is an inch taller than the other.
(c) One wears all red clothes and the other all black.
(d) One has a black mustache and the other a blonde one.

3. Where did Cincinnatus grow up?
(a) In a foster home.
(b) Homeless on the streets.
(c) In an orphanage.
(d) In a convent.

4. In the photohoroscope, when does the subject die?
(a) At fifty years old.
(b) At forty years old.
(c) At sixty years old.
(d) At seventy years old.

5. What does Cincinnatus write is more real than the everyday world?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Death.
(c) Thoughts.
(d) Dreams.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the director think Cincinnatus should feel about the new prisoner?

2. What reason does Cincinnatus write that he is too dangerous as his own accomplice?

3. How does Pierre characterize Cincinnatus's desire to know the date of his execution?

4. After Cincinnatus gets the news about the new prisoner, what does his cot seem to change into?

5. Who does Rodrig Ivanovich seem to transform into?

(see the answer key)

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