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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does X escape?
(a) He dresses up as a girl and sneaks out of the temple.
(b) He swims through the canals to get out of the city walls.
(c) The tongueless virgin serves as a diversion, allowing him to escape.
(d) He feels his way to the assassin's den where the other assassin's assist him.

2. Between which two factions is the conflict in Barcelona according to the May 26, 1937 article contained in chapter 10?
(a) Nationalists and Communists.
(b) Communists and Anarchists.
(c) Democrats and Republicans.
(d) Anarchists and Nationalists.

3. What was the theme of the charity ball Winifred organized according to the newspaper article?
(a) Commedia dell'artre.
(b) Masquerade.
(c) Tamurlane in Samarkand.
(d) Xanadu.

4. In the man's story, how are the sacrificial virgins mutilated before their death?
(a) Their eyes are gouged out so that they cannot see.
(b) Their ears are cut off so they cannot hear well.
(c) Their tongues are cut out so that they cannot speak.
(d) Their hands are cut off so that they cannot fight back.

5. How does the woman's dream begin?
(a) She walks onto the top of a roof.
(b) She is the tongueless virgin and X has just come in to kill her.
(c) She sees a man out on the sidewalk.
(d) She receives a telegram.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Laura, why was she sent to the mental institution?

2. What are the slaves called in the man's story?

3. What is the name of the girls' second tutor who pushes them to learn the classics and demands a sparse work space?

4. Where does the woman read the man's story?

5. In the woman's imagination, the man is sitting next to a woman who is doing what to pass the time?

(see the answer key)

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