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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 4: “1953: Apostles and Apostates”.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On what date does Book 3: "1946" begin?
(a) March 12.
(b) September 2.
(c) June 13.
(d) June 21.

2. How old does the colonel claim to be in Book 3: "An Alliance"?
(a) 42.
(b) 46.
(c) 39.
(d) 26.

3. By what affectionate name does the Count refer to the grand dining room off the lobby at the Hotel Metropole?
(a) The Idlehour.
(b) The Piazza.
(c) The Shalyapin.
(d) The Boyarsky.

4. Of the Count, the narrator says in Book 2: "1926: Adieu," "his philosophical leanings had always been essentially" what?
(a) "Based on chance."
(b) "Fateful."
(c) "Religious."
(d) "Meteorological."

5. 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) Aristotle and Plato.
(b) Einstein and Galileo.
(c) Pythagoras and Einstein.
(d) Newton and Galileo.

Short Answer Questions

1. What animals have been set loose on the fourth floor of the Metropol in Book 3: "Antics, Antitheses, an Accident"?

2. Where is a private party held at the Boyarsky in Book 3: "An Alliance"?

3. How old is the Count when Sofia comes into his care?

4. In what Shakespearean play does Dogberry appear, as noted in the allusion in Book 1: "An Assembly"?

5. By what firm was the Count's father's clock made to order?

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