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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10, "For a Couple of Bucks".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Plant Man like to ask people?
(a) "What's your favorite flower?"
(b) "Have you got a house?"
(c) "Where are you going?"
(d) "Do you need a plant?"

2. Why does Giampaolo say he trademarked the name Archimede Seguso?
(a) To protect it from being used by Gino after his father's death.
(b) To protect it from being diluted when other designers created pieces under his brand name.
(c) To protect his sons' portion of the family inheritance.
(d) To protect his interest in the sale of his father's glass.

3. What does the narrator say the Palazzo in which he will be living once was?
(a) A center for a fraternal order.
(b) A British embassy.
(c) A government building.
(d) A Doge's palace.

4. Which reminders of "La Traviata, Rigoletto and Tancredi" were supposedly housed in the Fenice according to one of the dinner guests at the Carnival ball?
(a) The original sets.
(b) The original costumes.
(c) The original casts' signatures.
(d) The handwritten original scores.

5. What did Ezra ask Mary to do as an exercise that led to her lifelong study of his work?
(a) Translate the Cantos into German.
(b) Reprint the Cantos.
(c) Illustrate the Cantos.
(d) Translate the Cantos into Italian.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When does the narrator say he'd fallen under Venice's spell?

3. What did Giampaolo give each of his family members at his fiftieth birthday party?

4. Why did Massimo Donadon give his company a German name?

5. Where does Mary de Rachwiltz live?

(see the answer key)

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