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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 9-10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What color does the sky appear to be when Tiggler and Jimmy cross the snowline and head for the summit?
(a) Red.
(b) Orange.
(c) Green.
(d) Purple.

2. When was a painting created about the shipwreck of the Medusa?
(a) 1844.
(b) 1856.
(c) 1831.
(d) 1819.

3. What did the holy Bishop of Grenoble excommunicate?
(a) Serpents.
(b) Swallows.
(c) Blood-suckers.
(d) Eels.

4. What was the name of Gericault's painting?
(a) Death at Sea.
(b) Death and Desperation.
(c) Scene of Shipwreck.
(d) Raft of the Medusa.

5. At the grocery store, in what section does the narrator find crocodile tail-steak and fillet of water-buffalo.
(a) Chinese section.
(b) European section.
(c) African section.
(d) Australian section.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Amanda give as payment for a place to stay in Arghuri?

2. When did the liner St. Louis leave Hamburg, Germany?

3. On what ship did James Bartley work as a sailor?

4. How many men appear in Gericault's painting?

5. What is the narrator's golf score the first time he plays in Chapter 10?

(see the answer key)

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