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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3 and Leaning from the Steep Slope.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the man in the first story sit with his suitcase?
(a) In a library.
(b) At a bus station.
(c) In a cafe.
(d) In a pizza shop.

2. What does the reader find when he begins reading the book the bookseller gives him?
(a) It is boring.
(b) It was written by the bookseller.
(c) It is not the same novel he was reading.
(d) It is the same book but claims to be written by a different author.

3. About what does the reader talk to the woman he meets ?
(a) The bookseller.
(b) The bookstore.
(c) Music.
(d) Books.

4. From what perspective is most of the novel written?
(a) Second person.
(b) First person.
(c) Third person limited.
(d) Third person omniscient.

5. What is the reader searching for after reading part of "Outside the Town of Malbork"?
(a) Love.
(b) A complete book.
(c) A book he will actually enjoy.
(d) A new bookstore.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote "Leaning from the Steep Slope"?

2. Where does If On a Winter's Night a Traveler begin?

3. Who walks the reader to Uzzi-Tuzii's office?

4. What separates Ludmilla's friend from Ludmilla?

5. Which of the following is a theme in the first chapter of the book?

(see the answer key)

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