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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 3, 4 and 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is the area called Junktown?
(a) Because it was once a landfill.
(b) Because of the antique and junk shops
(c) Because of the drugs sold there.
(d) Because of the old cars abandoned there.

2. How does Miss Duckworth make a melodramatic appearance in the novel?
(a) In a swirl of green smoke.
(b) Through a beaded curtain.
(c) Gliding down a circular staircase.
(d) Sitting like a statue on a lounge.

3. What does Qwilleran learn from overhearing customers in the Blue Dragon?
(a) That Miss Duckworth was Glanz's girlfriend.
(b) That Glanz was a drug dealer.
(c) That Miss Duckworth has a criminal record.
(d) That Glanz was two-timing several women.

4. What interests Qwilleran in a writing contest at the Daily Fluxion?
(a) The chance to get a staff job.
(b) A substantial cash prize.
(c) The assigned subject matter.
(d) Something to do.

5. What idea does Qwilleran get about a subject for the writing contest?
(a) The homeless in Junktown.
(b) Christmas in Junktown.
(c) The drug problem in Junktown.
(d) Finding junk to sell in Junktown.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Iris suggest some people disliked about Glanz?

2. What does Iris tell Qwilleran about the ghost, Mathilda?

3. What does everyone notice about C. C. Cobb's personality?

4. Witch inhabitant of the new apartment is the nervous one?

5. What seems to have no explanation at the crime scene?

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