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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 5: “1954: Applause and Acclaim” — “Adulthood”.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Emile's last name?
(a) Rostov.
(b) Kulikova.
(c) Urbanova.
(d) Zhukovsky.

2. When the Count enters the ballroom in Book 2: "1926: Adieu," Nina explains that she and her friend are testing the "hypotheses of two renowned mathematicians in a single experiment." Who are the mathematicians being tested?
(a) Newton and Galileo.
(b) Aristotle and Plato.
(c) Pythagoras and Einstein.
(d) Einstein and Galileo.

3. Who is the statue of that sits outside the door of room 316 of the Hotel Metropole?
(a) Gorky.
(b) Hermes.
(c) Odin.
(d) Socrates.

4. Who wrote the essay on cannibalism that Sofia is reading in Book 3: "Antics, Antitheses, an Accident"?
(a) Mikhail Fyodorovich Mindich.
(b) Alexander Warren.
(c) Leo Tolstoy.
(d) Michel de Montaigne.

5. Why does the Count go to see Marina in Book 1: "An Assembly"?
(a) To have his pants repaired.
(b) To have his jacket repaired.
(c) To get a haircut.
(d) To get a shave.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Count order at the dining room adjacent to the lobby of the Hotel Metropole in Book 1: "An Acquaintanceship"?

2. Where are the Count and Sofia going to dine in the opening of Book 4: "1952: America"?

3. Who is the boy that is with Nina in the ballroom when the Count enters in Book 2: "1926: Adieu"?

4. On what date does Book 1: "Around and About" open?

5. Where does Anna take a train in the beginning of Book 2: "Addendum"?

(see the answer key)

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