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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, "The Rat Man of Treviso".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the Count Giuseppe Volpi live?
(a) In Castello.
(b) In Cannaregio.
(c) In Santa Croce.
(d) On the Giudecca.

2. What does the narrator say the Ateneo Veneto once housed?
(a) A museum of Venetian history.
(b) A fraternal order dedicated to escorting condemned prisoners to the gallows.
(c) A fraternal order of monks.
(d) The Academy of Art.

3. How many major versions of the Fenice does Peter say there have been in 200 years?
(a) Six.
(b) Four.
(c) Eight.
(d) Five.

4. What does Leonardo Corbo, the civil protection chief from Rome, say about the fire?
(a) The panel of experts may never really know what happened.
(b) The fire was clearly too much for the fire brigade.
(c) Fire leaves indelible traces.
(d) From his vantage point, it looked like arson.

5. What do the Lauritzens do while talking that makes it difficult for the narrator to follow them?
(a) They keep changing the subject.
(b) They talk at the same time.
(c) They switch back and forth between English and Italian.
(d) They keep interrupting each other.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which paper does the narrator mention that reports on the many suspicious coincidences surrounding the Fenice fire?

2. What is Signor Seguso's nickname?

3. What word does Woody Allen use to describe the devastation at the Fenice?

4. Which of the following gods does Lovato not mention in talking with the narrator about the interior of the Fenice?

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

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