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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7-9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Beatles' song does the narrator describe singing in the bar with Man and Bon in Chapter 1?
(a) "Help!"
(b) "Yesterday."
(c) "Black Bird."
(d) "While My Guitar Gently Weeps."

2. What fictional spy character does the narrator describe sleeping peacefully on a bed of nails in Chapter 5?
(a) Alan Blunt.
(b) Basil Argyros.
(c) James Bond.
(d) Jane Blonde.

3. In what film does the narrator describe Mickey Rooney playing a "bucktoothed, bespectacled Jap" in Chapter 8?
(a) Breakfast at Tiffany's.
(b) Watership Down.
(c) To Have and Have Not.
(d) The Last Battle.

4. What infamous Nazi does the author describe in Chapter 8?
(a) Frank Hans.
(b) Joseph Goebbels.
(c) Adolf Hitler.
(d) Wilhelm Frick.

5. The author writes in Chapter 5, "Under Asian communism, everything but" what "is free"?
(a) "Politics."
(b) "Sex."
(c) "Life."
(d) "Death."

Short Answer Questions

1. What word in the novel refers to the practice of concealing a message within another message?

2. What kind of traditional dress does the narrator describe Lana having worn as a girl in Chapter 7?

3. What is the name of Bon's son?

4. What film of the Auteur's is described in Chapter 8 as "A critically lauded movie about the travails of Greek American youth in the inflamed streets of Detroit"?

5. What is the name of the Auteur's gardener?

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