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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, "Sleepwalking".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the narrator say he's decided he'll live?
(a) With a host family.
(b) In an apartment.
(c) In Lido.
(d) In a bed and breakfast.

2. What is Contessa Marcello's main, immediate concern when she hears about the fire?
(a) The inappropriateness of the ball.
(b) The safety of her family.
(c) The safety of her possessions.
(d) Whether the Prime Minister's wife will be coming to the ball.

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

4. What do the young girls talking with the carabinieri want?
(a) A couple of cigarettes.
(b) Autographs.
(c) A tour of the wreckage.
(d) A look at the fallen mayor.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is "Antica Mole"?

2. In which quarter does the narrator take an apartment?

3. Why does the narrator say he's come to Venice in February?

4. Besides plants, what else does the Plant Man sell?

5. What is Signor Seguso's nickname?

(see the answer key)

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