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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters The Nipa Barn, Chez Dr. Isidro Cruz, and The Aero-Móvil.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Kay Fischer's occupation?
(a) Journalist.
(b) Professor.
(c) Architect.
(d) Physician.

2. What does Kay think started Philip on the road to his alcoholism?
(a) Losing his father and older brother in a mining accident.
(b) Losing his fortune in the stock market crash of 1929.
(c) Flunking out of MIT.
(d) The death of his son.

3. Who was the actual buyer of Kay's house?
(a) Eric Meyersen.
(b) A famous jockey.
(c) An elderly actress.
(d) A mobster.

4. What is the year of the setting of the chapter "Tongue"?
(a) 1902.
(b) 1882.
(c) 1898.
(d) 1919.

5. What do Pantaleon and Carriscant do to a Chinese youth?
(a) Defend his right to citizenship.
(b) Remove a tumor from his tongue.
(c) Remove a bullet next to his spine.
(d) Defend him in a wrongful murder suit.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kay infer about Philip during their marriage?

2. During what time does the United States colonize the Philippine Islands?

3. What does Carriscant think about sex in his marriage?

4. What happened to cause a war in the Philippines?

5. What does Carriscant see in Cruz's home?

(see the answer key)

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