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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Count Marcello insist Venetians never do?
2. What does the narrator say the Ateneo Veneto once housed?
3. What object does a Sicilian prince bring to Signor Seguso in order to authenticate it?
4. What does one attendant of the meeting at the Ateneo Veneto bring as a memento from the fire?
5. What aspect of the fire department's handling of the Fenice fire did the custodian's attorney attack?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Count Marcello seem to believe about the fire and how does he back up his opinion?
2. Explain Rose Lauritzen's problems with the "magazzino" as detailed in Chapter 3.
3. What is the pigeon problem in Venice and how is it being dealt with?
4. What does the narrator say about Napoleon and what do these comments have to do with the current state of Venice?
5. How does the Count Giovanni Volpi describe his father?
6. Explain what Rose tells the narrator about the safety of the city of Venice.
7. What does the narrator learn about Alistair McAlpine at the party?
8. Who is the Rat Man of Treviso and what does he do? What's special about what he does?
9. How does the panel of experts come to the conclusion that the Fenice fire must not have been caused by arson?
10. Describe Capitano Mario Moro.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Using Ezra Pound and Peggy Guggenheim as examples, describe what the Lauritzens say the social life in Venice is like.
Essay Topic 2
Drawing on what you know about the book's critical reception, explain how the author's own telling of the story plays in to the book's theme of truth and deception.
Essay Topic 3
Explain the importance of the gods Apollo, Dionysus, and Bacchus for the interior of the Fenice and why they are important as symbols of Venice.
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