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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Dennis hear in the room where he is led?
(a) A recorded nightingale song.
(b) Someone laughing hysterically.
(c) Someone sobbing.
(d) An eerie scratching noise.

2. What is poorly received by the studio heads?
(a) The biography that Sir Francis writes.
(b) The new anti-communist guidelines.
(c) A screen-play about a pet coyote.
(d) A screen-play about a large woman.

3. Who is Ambrose Abercrombie?
(a) The proprietor of the pub where the Englishmen are sitting.
(b) Someone who will be arriving soon.
(c) A magician.
(d) The bartender at the pub where the Englishmen are sitting.

4. When is the first time Dennis Barlow sees a human corpse?
(a) When he is in the war in Italy.
(b) When he is 28.
(c) When he is 15 and his grandfather drowns.
(d) When he is 12.

5. What does a porter announce?
(a) That the bodies of a woman and child have arrived.
(b) That the bodies of twins have arrived.
(c) That Sir Francis turns out to be indigent.
(d) That the body of another Britishman has arrived.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dennis send to Sir Ambrose?

2. Why does Sir Ambrose drop by?

3. What did Sir Francis once work as?

4. What is one natural scene described in Chapter 1?

5. What does Aimée think when Dennis gasps?

(see the answer key)

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