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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5 and Looks Down in the Gathering Shadow.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Ludmilla read?
(a) For pleasure.
(b) For meaning.
(c) To experience emotions.
(d) For knowledge.

2. Who agrees that the reader needs to see a publisher but does not want to go by himself/herself?
(a) Uzzi-Tuzii.
(b) Lotaria.
(c) Ludmilla.
(d) Alex.

3. What is considered the language of the dead?
(a) Italian.
(b) English.
(c) Cimmerian.
(d) Cimbric.

4. When the reader turns the page, what does he discover to make a defective book?
(a) Blank pages.
(b) Pages that have been handwritten.
(c) A letter from Ludmilla.
(d) Torn pages.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the reader exchange with the woman?

2. What is most likely inside the suitcase the man carries around?

3. Which character in "Looks Down in the Gathering Shadow" mentions that another sack is needed?

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

5. Where does the main character of "Leaning from the Steep Slope" walk every day?

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