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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 23.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Rossi interpret Hedges’s death?
(a) As a senseless accident.
(b) As revenge.
(c) As an omen of things to come.
(d) As a warning to curtail his studies.

2. What was Paul’s career when the dragon book came into his possession?
(a) He was a graduate student.
(b) He was serving in the military.
(c) He was teaching high school.
(d) He was a young university professor.

3. What fictional account does the narrator read when she returns to Amsterdam in Part One, Chapter 7?
(a) Edgar Allan Poe’s ”Murders in the Rue Morgue.”
(b) Stephanie Meyers’s Twilight.
(c) Evelyn Bard’s The Demon Who Would Be King.
(d) Bram Stoker’s Dracula.

4. What is Barley’s role while the narrator is visiting with her father?
(a) Campus guide.
(b) Tudor.
(c) Escort.
(d) Bodyguard.

5. How does Paul react when they tour the religious building in France in Part One, Chapter 10?
(a) With a mixture of fear and anger.
(b) With a mixture of anger and sadness.
(c) With a mixture of anger and regret.
(d) With a mixture of fear and grief.

Short Answer Questions

1. What specific story does Paul tell at the beginning of Part One, Chapter 6?

2. Why does Rossi stop his research after his room is ransacked?

3. What country was Paul in when the dragon book came into his possession?

4. According to Rossi’s final letter, what is he determined to do?

5. What is missing from Rossi’s bookshelf after he disappears?

(see the answer key)

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