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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, "Slow Burn".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Plant Man like to ask people?
(a) "What's your favorite flower?"
(b) "Have you got a house?"
(c) "Do you need a plant?"
(d) "Where are you going?"

2. When does the narrator say he'd fallen under Venice's spell?
(a) Ten years ago.
(b) Thirty years ago.
(c) Five years ago.
(d) Twenty years ago.

3. Why does Count Volpi say the Venetians vilify his father?
(a) Because he became wealthy through his hotel business.
(b) Because he never liked Venice.
(c) Because he had a mistress.
(d) Because the Marghera now creates a lot of ecological problems.

4. What does the narrator say the officials are quick to do at the meeting in the Ateneo Veneto?
(a) Call for the immediate building of a modern opera house.
(b) Absolve themselves of any wrongdoing.
(c) Remind the townspeople that this isn't the first major accident to happen this year.
(d) Blame the Mafia for the fire.

5. What do the men trying to net the pigeons scatter for them?
(a) Cornmeal.
(b) Rice.
(c) Seeds.
(d) Bread crumbs.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the narrator ask about the screens on the window?

2. What is "Antica Mole"?

3. What kind of uniform is Capitano Mario Moro wearing the second time the narrator sees him?

4. Which covert paramilitary operation was Casson responsible for uncovering?

5. What does the narrator say the Fenice had been reduced to upon seeing the front of the building?

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