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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II, Looking Up Chomolungma's Dress.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is it custom for Alobar's kingdom to do once the ruler shows signs of age?
(a) Banish him.
(b) Uncrown him.
(c) Crown him.
(d) Kill him.

2. What does the narrator write would be cast as Macbeth or Hamlet?
(a) A tomato.
(b) A beet.
(c) Pan.
(d) A monster.

3. What are the rulers of Alobar's kingdom considered to be?
(a) Immortal.
(b) God-men.
(c) Fierce.
(d) Elected.

4. Where did Priscilla's father live?
(a) Arizona.
(b) Argentina.
(c) New Hampshire.
(d) Mexico.

5. What is poisoned for the king to eat as his last meal?
(a) A beet.
(b) An apple.
(c) An egg.
(d) A steak.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the egg laced with?

2. The man who sold Madame Devalier the flowers is from which location?

3. During what period was the building in which Priscilla lives built?

4. Of the nine planets, which does the author say looks like the most fun?

5. The proverb of what nationality warns, "A tale that begins with a beet will end with the devil"?

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