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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. About whom does Dennis come to Hollywood to do a screenplay?
(a) Shelly.
(b) Wordsworth.
(c) Keats.
(d) Blake.

2. About what does Sir Ambrose give a speech?
(a) Rallying the English around the flag.
(b) The uncertainties of Hollywood.
(c) The end of the gentleman's era.
(d) The beginning of corruption in Hollywood.

3. What does Barlow go to pick up while he is at work?
(a) A dead parrot.
(b) A dead dog.
(c) A dead cat.
(d) A dead man.

4. Besides being fiction, how else is the story described in the paragraph that is set before Chapter 1?
(a) A little nightmare.
(b) A slice of the good life.
(c) A look at the rotten core of life.
(d) A cloudy view of reality.

5. Who is Sir Francis Hinsley?
(a) A person about whom the two Englishmen are making disparaging remarks.
(b) The elder of the two Englishmen.
(c) The director of a play in which the two Englishmen are acting.
(d) The younger of the two Englishmen.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Ambrose Abercrombie?

2. What has Barlow done recently?

3. Where is Sir Francis' body when Dennis comes home one night?

4. What is one word that one of the Englishmen might use to describe Americans?

5. How high are the letters carved into the marble slab at the funeral home?

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