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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 10-11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the thin young woman playing in the old stone house when Leslie and Richard arrive?
(a) Violin.
(b) Harp.
(c) Piano.
(d) Cello.

2. How many years ago does Richard say he and Leslie first met at the end of Chapter 2?
(a) Three years.
(b) Forty years.
(c) Sixteen years.
(d) Twelve years.

3. At the beginning of the novel, where do Richard and Leslie plan to meet scientific researchers?
(a) Los Angeles.
(b) Spring Hill.
(c) San Diego.
(d) Palm Springs.

4. How many people might young Richard kill if he flies the plane that drops a hydrogen bomb in 1962?
(a) Thirteen hundred.
(b) Twenty thousand.
(c) Sixty thousand.
(d) Nine hundred thousand.

5. What does Richard realize is part of him at the end of Chapter 9?
(a) Belief in passive resistance.
(b) Nomadic life.
(c) Attila's violent ways.
(d) A peaceful past.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the young Leslie ask Leslie and Richard before they leave at the end of Chapter 6?

2. In what city is the seventeen-year-old Leslie giving a recital?

3. What is the word for one of the core ideas that Atkins describes to Richard and Leslie?

4. Why does Attila kill his guard?

5. How do the couple that Leslie and Richard meet in Chapter 11 know they are Americans?

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