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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book I, Chapters 14-20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Marina have breakfast?
(a) In the sitting room.
(b) In bed.
(c) In the kitchen.
(d) In the dining room.

2. When writing her husband from sanatoriums, Aqua sometimes used a Russian term meaning what?
(a) Bursting memories.
(b) Rays of hope.
(c) Heart rending sounds.
(d) Sickening sadness.

3. What contact with Ada excites Van?
(a) He gives her a pony-ride.
(b) They hide together in a cave.
(c) She sits on his lap.
(d) They wrestle.

4. What does Dack run through the house with?
(a) Clothes from Van's room.
(b) A hambone from the kitchen.
(c) Cottonwool soaked with blood.
(d) A bird he has caught in the garden.

5. In what language does Van write letters to his mother?
(a) French.
(b) Italian.
(c) German.
(d) English.

Short Answer Questions

1. What structure catches fire and wakes nearly everyone in the house?

2. What Russian writer is quoted in the beginning of the novel?

3. Who is Van's first sexual experience with?

4. What gymnastic trick does Van help Lucette do?

5. What does Baron d'Onsky try to buy from Demon?

(see the answer key)

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