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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, "At Water Level".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does one attendant of the meeting at the Ateneo Veneto bring as a memento from the fire?
(a) A piece of the chandelier.
(b) A piece of scenery.
(c) A piece of ash.
(d) A piece of the curtain.

2. Where is Peter from originally?
(a) Illinois.
(b) Massachusetts.
(c) California.
(d) Ohio.

3. Who enters into a P.R. war with Luciano Pavarotti over the benefit concert for the rebuilding of the Fenice?
(a) Franco Corelli.
(b) Plácido Domingo.
(c) Woody Allen.
(d) José Carreras.

4. Which of Signor Seguso's hands is "permanently cupped"?
(a) Neither of them.
(b) The left.
(c) Both of them.
(d) The right.

5. What does the narrator notice about characters in novels and movies set in Venice?
(a) They aren't convincing characters.
(b) They aren't very educated.
(c) They aren't honest.
(d) They aren't Venetian.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Contessa Marcello's main, immediate concern when she hears about the fire?

2. What does the narrator say the Fenice had been reduced to upon seeing the front of the building?

3. What are Signor and Signora Seguso doing when they notice the fire?

4. What do friends tell Rose and Peter they need to get for their downstairs apartment?

5. What was the floor in Rose and Peter's basement apartment previously made of?

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