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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 16, 17 and 18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Visiting the Fluxion office, what does Riker tell Qwilleran?
(a) He will get paid extra for investigating the murders.
(b) He has a good chance of winning the writing prize.
(c) Nobody is interested in reading about Junktown.
(d) To stop his feature on Junktown and concentrate on the murders.

2. What does Qwilleran feed his Siamese cats he brought from the Press Club?
(a) Fish and chips.
(b) Beef and kidney pie.
(c) Turkey.
(d) Boiled beef.

3. why does Iris wake Qwilleran the morning after their dinner in the Cobbs's apartment?
(a) The cats are disturbing her.
(b) C.C. did not come home.
(c) C. C. has moved out.
(d) Miss Duckworth has been attacked.

4. What is the surprising purchase made by C. C. Cobb at the auction?
(a) The ladder Glanz fell from.
(b) The finial Glanz apparently fell on.
(c) The broken chandelier.
(d) The Macintosh Coat of Arms.

5. Why is Qwilleran disappointed before dinner after returning from Nicolas's shop?
(a) He cannot find Koko and Yum Yum.
(b) He cannot find anyone to go with him to the Press Club.
(c) He has received no mail.
(d) There is nothing to eat in his flat.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the one shop Qwilleran eventually finds open?

2. What indicates that the police think Andy's death was just an accident?

3. What innuendo does Ivy make about Iris Cobb?

4. Whose boot sole matches a footprint Qwilleran found in the Elsworth house?

5. So far, what do the police make of Glanz's death?

(see the answer key)

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