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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4 (pages 74-111).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Moon think Birkin is avoiding finishing his work?
(a) Because he is in love with Moon.
(b) Because he is pathetic.
(c) Because he will have to leave Oxgodby and his friends.
(d) Because he is a perfectionist.

2. What material did the original artist of the painting use on the nobles' clothes?
(a) Gold leaf.
(b) Black paint.
(c) Cinnabr.
(d) Blue lapiz.

3. What rule does Birkin tell Kathy Ellerbeck about?
(a) No one can see him eat.
(b) No one can see what he is working on.
(c) No one can climb the scaffolding.
(d) No one can enter his bedroom.

4. What does Birkin realize after thinking about the part of the painting that is incomplete?
(a) The painting was the man's last job.
(b) The painter was too afraid to finish the painting.
(c) The section is purposely left blank.
(d) The church must have prevented the painter from finishing.

5. Who walks up while Birkin is on the ladder in the church for the first time?
(a) Miss Hebron.
(b) Keach.
(c) Moon.
(d) The Colonel.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is described as an "impresario conjuring and teasing"?

2. The painter filled in the entire painting except what?

3. While on the ladder in the church for the first time, Thomas Birkin thinks about everything that _________ has told him.

4. What fills the chancel's arch in the church?

5. What symbol do Moon and Birkin find inside the tomb indicating that Miss Hebron's ancestor was a Muslim?

(see the answer key)

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