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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter IV: The Promenade and Chapter V: Neither Here nor There.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The reader is reminded in Chapter V: Neither Here nor There that Noah and Michael's trip is how many days in length?
(a) 6.
(b) 9.
(c) 8.
(d) 7.

2. For how many months has Noah been retired by the opening of the narrative?
(a) 1.
(b) 9.
(c) 3.
(d) 6.

3. According to Noah, what group of people were responsible for building the promenade?
(a) Soldiers.
(b) Beggars.
(c) Prisoners of war.
(d) Children.

4. What language(s) did Noah speak upon his arrival in the United States at age four?
(a) French.
(b) English.
(c) French and Spanish.
(d) French and English.

5. From what location does the novel's protagonist, Noah, hear his wife Joan speaking in Chapter 1: The Call?
(a) From the kitchen.
(b) From the back garden.
(c) From the pool area.
(d) From inside his mind.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Fernande's husband's name?

2. Noah tells Michael in Chapter II: Twenty Questions that he "spent most of [his] career working on" (68) what?

3. To what location do Noah and Michael go during their first walk together?

4. Michael looks up the Bastille Day massacre on his phone and announces that how many people were killed that day?

5. Noah begins to suspect in earnest in Chapter IV: The Promenade that the man with the cane in one of Margot's photographs had been her what?

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