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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Prologue: “Fire” and Part One: “Fog,” Chapters 1-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word from the Prologue: “Fire” refers to a delicate ornamental work of fine silver, gold, or other metal wires, especially lacy jewelers' work of scrolls and arabesques?
(a) Laminate
(b) Porcelain
(c) Filigree
(d) Cameo

2. What is Grisini’s full name said to be in the Prologue: “Fire”?
(a) Gaspare
(b) Gremini
(c) Gallantro
(d) Griswald

3. What is the name of the landlady’s spaniel that Lizzie Rose frequently feeds in Part One: “Fog”?
(a) Socks
(b) Buttercup
(c) Spazzle
(d) Ruby

4. In the beginning of Part One: “Fog,” Chapter 1, Clara considers that if it is too foggy, Grisini might not come and that her birthday “would be like all the others, with a trip” where “in the morning”?
(a) To the pizza parlor
(b) To the Royal Court
(c) To Kensal Green
(d) To the London Abbey

5. What is described as having a hideous face and hangs from a cord above Cassandra’s bed in the Prologue: “Fire”?
(a) A silver dragon
(b) A ruby cat
(c) A gold donkey
(d) A brass monkey

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Clara’s governess in the novel?

2. Where had Cassandra and Grisini been when Grisini warned Cassandra of the powers of the phoenix-stone, according to the narrator in the Prologue: “Fire”?

3. How many years ago did Grisini take Parsefall from a workhouse, according to the narrator in Part One: “Fog”?

4. What is the name of the landlady to Grisini and his wards in London?

5. For how many years does the narrator say that Cassandra has cherished the phoenix-stone in the Prologue: “Fire”?

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