View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4, pages 185-199.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. About whom is the narrator's sketch?
(a) Watteau.
(b) Borromini.
(c) Correggio.
(d) Boucher.

2. Where does the narrator say he is sending the package?
(a) Beirut.
(b) Moscow.
(c) Smyrna.
(d) Tangiers.

3. What does the narrator try to give to the organ-grinder's daughter for her father?
(a) His waistcoat.
(b) A lecture.
(c) His purse.
(d) A cake.

4. Why does the narrator give up on his idea of writing "Crimes of the Future"?
(a) It is too elementary.
(b) It is too long-winded.
(c) It is too complicated.
(d) It is too boring.

5. Of whom does the stonecutter remind the narrator?
(a) A bookkeeper.
(b) His brother.
(c) A banker.
(d) A debt collector.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator find on the table of his apartment?

2. What falls out of the narrator's pocket as he takes out his papers?

3. What is in the old man's paper-wrapped package in the end?

4. For whom does the narrator ask at the third-floor apartment?

5. What season is it at the beginning of Part Four?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 186 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample