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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Cincinnatus say when he learns his mother has come to see him?
(a) He has been searching for her and is happy to see her for the first time.
(b) He doesn't want to see her.
(c) He is too exhausted to have an opinion.
(d) He is glad to meet with her again.

2. What does the new prisoner look like?
(a) He is large and muscular.
(b) He is average in every way.
(c) He is tall and thin.
(d) He is small and fat.

3. What does Pierre tell Cincinnatus that they will do together?
(a) Find a path to spiritual well-being.
(b) Walk up the execution scaffold.
(c) Walk out of the prison to freedom.
(d) Take over the guard towers.

4. When Cincinnatus asks the prison director when his execution will be, what answer does the director give?
(a) The director says the execution will be the next day.
(b) The director says the execution will be whenever Cincinnatus is ready.
(c) The director says the execution will be in a year.
(d) The director does not know when the execution will be.

5. What does Cincinnatus have to eat when Emmie comes into his cell?
(a) Hot chocolate and toast.
(b) Sweet rolls and orange juice.
(c) Coffee and cereal.
(d) Eggs and bacon.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Cincinnatus complain about that causes Pierre to call him rude?

2. What does the prison director scold the prisoner for doing?

3. How does the judge deliver Cincinnatus' sentence?

4. Where does Rodion tell Cincinnatus to go while his cell is cleaned?

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

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