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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, The Erotic Traveler.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Desiderio do which earns him the title of hero among the River People?
(a) Intercedes when someone tries to cheat the River People.
(b) Walks through fire.
(c) Kills a bear.
(d) Kills a man.

2. The Professor tells Desiderio in Chapter 4, The Acrobats of Desire that the peep show objects were created by whom?
(a) Himself.
(b) Mendoza.
(c) Dr. Hoffman.
(d) Albertina.

3. Whose mother led to the falling out between Mendoza and Dr. Hoffman?
(a) Albertina's.
(b) Desiderio's.
(c) Dr. Hoffman's.
(d) The Professor's.

4. What does Desiderio find to be desolate and abandoned in Chapter 2, The Mansion of Midnight?
(a) The promenade.
(b) The town hall.
(c) The local pub.
(d) The cathedral.

5. Who is looking for the Count to kill him?
(a) A king.
(b) A pimp.
(c) A prostitute.
(d) A waitress.

Short Answer Questions

1. Against whom does the narrator describe having fought a war in the beginning of The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman?

2. The prostitutes in the brothel from Chapter 5, The Erotic Traveler appear to be made of what?

3. What does the Minister develop that tests items to assign a reality to them?

4. Desiderio discovers in Chapter 2, The Mansion of Midnight that the peepshow proprietor was Dr. Hoffman's what?

5. Who is the narrator in The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman?

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