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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12, "Beware of Falling Angels".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Count Marcello's speech to the board center around?
(a) His reasons for his impending resignation.
(b) Lovett's incompetence.
(c) The organization's image in Venice.
(d) Guthrie's incompetence.

2. What did Olga say in the letter sent to the Cleveland attorney after she realized what had happened?
(a) She had reconsidered the sale of Ezra's personal belongings.
(b) She had reconsidered the sale of her archive.
(c) She would fight until she got her house back.
(d) It was her firm intention to dissolve the "Ezra Pound Foundation".

3. Which part of the Palazzo do the Curtises sell in Chapter 8?
(a) The wine cellar.
(b) The piano nobile.
(c) The ballroom.
(d) The upper apartments.

4. What does one attendant of the meeting at the Ateneo Veneto bring as a memento from the fire?
(a) A piece of the curtain.
(b) A piece of the chandelier.
(c) A piece of ash.
(d) A piece of scenery.

5. Whose house did Foscari and his team find beneath the Malibran Theater?
(a) Leonardo da Vinci's.
(b) Amerigo Vespucci's.
(c) Marco Polo's.
(d) Michaelangelo's.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Impregilo manage to cut time and cost off their bid?

2. How does Guthrie respond to Lesa Marcello's refusal to turn down the prize for Lovett?

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

4. What do the men trying to net the pigeons scatter for them?

5. In which quarter does the narrator take an apartment?

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