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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When is the only time Quinn uses his typewriter?
(a) He only uses his typewriter when editing his work.
(b) He only uses a typewriter when writing a final draft of his work.
(c) Quinn does not own a typewriter.
(d) He only uses a typewriter when writing a first draft of his work.

2. What is Quinn's favorite sport?
(a) Basketball.
(b) Soccer.
(c) Tennis.
(d) Baseball.

3. Why does Quinn agree to help the mystery caller?
(a) He is in need of money.
(b) He is curious.
(c) He is bored.
(d) He is sad.

4. How old was Peter's father when he was made a full professor?
(a) 29.
(b) 60.
(c) 35.
(d) 42.

5. How many different groups of people were said to have worked on the Tower of Babel?
(a) Six.
(b) Three.
(c) Nineteen.
(d) Fourty.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which emotion does Quinn most strongly experience when he first sees Stillman's train?

2. What year did Henry Dark predict the Tower of Babel would return?

3. What object does Stillman carry off the train with him?

4. Where does Quinn live?

5. Who is Michael?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Quinn's reaction to losing track of Stillman at the end of Chapter 10?

2. Why does Quinn publish his books under the name William Wilson?

3. How is Quinn able to feed himself during the time he lives as a bum?

4. What does Peter Stillman look like?

5. Why is Daniel's yoyo important in Chapter 10?

6. What does the elder Stillman look like when he emerges from his hotel room for the first time in Chapter 8?

7. How does Quinn feel when he assumes the persona of Paul Auster?

8. Why does Quinn withdraw most of the money from his bank account?

9. Why is the Hotel Harmony an important location in City of Glass?

10. What is the narrator's opinion of Quinn's fate at the end of City of Glass?

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