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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Locked Room, Chapters 3-4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the hotel where Stillman stays?
(a) The Hotel Symphony.
(b) The Hotel Harmony.
(c) The Plaza Hotel.
(d) The Hotel California.

2. After Quinn runs out of money and leaves the alleyway, he sees his reflection in a mirror. His own image reminds him of whom?
(a) Don Quixote.
(b) Robinson Crusoe.
(c) Jonathon Swift.
(d) Peter Stillman.

3. Why is the narrator apprehensive about opening the suitcases and reading Fanshawe's work?
(a) He doesn't want Fanshawe's work to be bad, but neither does he want it to be good.
(b) He worries that he will read something very personal about Sophie and Fanshawe's relationship.
(c) He has too much of his own work to do and is worried about the time it will take.
(d) He remembers that Fanshawe liked to write about things that did not interest him.

4. What book is the girl reading with whom Quinn converses in the waiting room?
(a) The New York Triology by Paul Auster.
(b) The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle.
(c) Paradise Lost by John Milton.
(d) Suicide Squeeze by William Wilson.

5. According to Stillman's notes in Chapter 5, which character does he suspect of not being trustworthy?
(a) The counterman at the luncheonette.
(b) Peter Stillman.
(c) Virginia Stillman.
(d) Paul Auster.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 8, what do each of the maps of Stillman's routes resemble to Quinn?

2. In Chapter 2, who greets Quinn at the apartment door?

3. What name does Blue use to introduce himself to Black during their second conversation?

4. In the narrator's recollection about second grade, to whom does Fanshawe give the present intended for the birthday boy?

5. Which historical figure was faced with the challenge of standing an egg on its end?

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