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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 1, Part 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is the following quote from "The World of Wrestling" finished: "the virtue of all-in wrestling is that it is the spectacle of _____."
(a) Excess.
(b) Confrontation.
(c) Reason.
(d) Anger.

2. What does the author suggest is saintly about the Abbe Pierre?
(a) The beard.
(b) The work.
(c) The clothing.
(d) The haircut.

3. "______ for Schelling." How is this quote from "The Brain of Einstein finished"?
(a) Air.
(b) Oxygen.
(c) Water.
(d) Breath.

4. Who is "a fifty-year-old with an obese and sagging body"?
(a) Orsano.
(b) Harlequin.
(c) Mazaud.
(d) Thauvin.

5. Where was this meeting on soaps mentioned in "Soap Powders and Detergents"?
(a) Madrid.
(b) New York.
(c) Paris.
(d) London.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is not a publication referred to by the author in "The Blue Guide"?

2. Which Saint is the Abbe said to be dressed up as in "The Iconography of the Abbe Pierre"?

3. According to the author, French toys always mean what?

4. In the opening sentence of "The Brain of Einstein," the author states that Einstein's brain is what sort of object?

5. Which of the following is not something the author says the ship grows past being in "The Nautilus and the Drunken Boat"?

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