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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book Five, Chapters 1-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Mr. Gromwell?
(a) Lucette's doctor.
(b) Demon's business partner.
(c) Van's lawyer.
(d) Ada's lover.

2. What example does Van use in discussing order or succession in our perception of the past?
(a) Remembering whether he has previously worn a tie.
(b) Remembering what days to take medicine.
(c) Remembering what he had to eat on previous days.
(d) Remembering whether his razor has been used once or twice.

3. What does Van think about the relativistic idea of space-time?
(a) He rejects it.
(b) He thinks it is both true and false simultaneously.
(c) He thinks it is partially true.
(d) He embraces it.

4. What board game is "Flavita" a Russian version of?
(a) Scrabble.
(b) Monopoly.
(c) Risk.
(d) Sorry.

5. What does Ada say about the roses Percy gives her?
(a) She likes roses, but not as much as daisies.
(b) She adoes roses.
(c) She is allergic to roses.
(d) She hates roses.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the "eremitic reality or collective dream" Van discusses in his dissertation called?

2. Does Van talk to Ada before he leaves?

3. When writing her husband from sanatoriums, Aqua sometimes used a Russian term meaning what?

4. Why does Demon duel Baron d'Onsky?

5. Why does the governess decide to stay in bed for five days?

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