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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, "Sleepwalking".

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where is Peter from originally?
(a) Ohio.
(b) Massachusetts.
(c) California.
(d) Illinois.

3. What does Count Marcello insist Venetians never do?
(a) Sit on St. Mark's square.
(b) Tell the truth.
(c) Walk to work.
(d) Lie.

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

5. Which of Signor Seguso's hands is "permanently cupped"?
(a) Both of them.
(b) The left.
(c) The right.
(d) Neither of them.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who enters into a P.R. war with Luciano Pavarotti over the benefit concert for the rebuilding of the Fenice?

3. Besides plants, what else does the Plant Man sell?

4. What do the Lauritzens do while talking that makes it difficult for the narrator to follow them?

5. What was the floor in Rose and Peter's basement apartment previously made of?

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