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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the prison director scold the prisoner for doing?
(a) Complaining about the conditions at the prison.
(b) Going out of his cell.
(c) Letting his dinner get cold.
(d) Looking out of the window.

2. Who finds what the lawyer was looking for at the beginning of his meeting with Cincinnatus?
(a) The prison guard.
(b) The prison director.
(c) The lawyer.
(d) Cincinnatus.

3. What words does Cincinnatus see written on the wall of the hallway?
(a) Give up already.
(b) Look up.
(c) Testing brush.
(d) No one was here.

4. What does Cincinnatus credit his lawyer with?
(a) Avoiding doing anything at all at the trial.
(b) Making eloquent speeches that accomplish nothing.
(c) Making himself look good at Cincinnatus's expense.
(d) Saving him from a worse punishment than beheading.

5. What does Cincinnatus do to try and look out the window?
(a) He jumps up in the air.
(b) He stands on a table.
(c) He crawls through a tunnel.
(d) He climbs up the wall.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the lawyer offer to Cincinnatus?

2. What does Cincinnatus do at night in his youth when he has his first job?

3. What was unusual about Cincinnatus' sentence?

4. What does Cincinnatus do outside the new prisoner's cell?

5. What does Cincinnatus have to eat when Emmie comes into his cell?

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