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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15, The Strange Town.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Latimer and Peters' first contact with DImitrios supposed to be?
(a) A face-to-face meeting.
(b) A telephone call.
(c) A letter.
(d) A telegram.

2. Why does Grodek say he doesn't read detective novels?
(a) They are written terribly.
(b) They seem naive.
(c) They bring back bad memories.
(d) They are too real.

3. How was the body in the morgue killed?
(a) Poisoned.
(b) Strangled.
(c) Knife wound in the stomach.
(d) Shot in the back.

4. What is the name of Latimer's interpreter?
(a) Fedor.
(b) Fedorov.
(c) Francis.
(d) Frederick.

5. What does Ambler compare a face to?
(a) A window.
(b) A telltale sign of one's character.
(c) A picture.
(d) A mask.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much money did Peters lend Visser during the time that Visser was looking for DImitrios?

2. What does the Colonel say is the difference between a real criminal and a storybook criminal?

3. Finish the sentence: "A man's features, the bone structure and the tissue that covers it, are the product of a biological process; but his face________".

4. On the night of their meeting with Dimitrios, what does Peters ask of Latimer before they depart?

5. What does Latimer do when he sees that both Dimitrios and Peters are dead?

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