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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Nick's nurse leave for Pordenone?
(a) To buy a house
(b) To attend college
(c) To care for her parents
(d) To open a hospital

2. What does Dick Boulton call the logs?
(a) Zeus' toothpicks
(b) Stolen property
(c) A nuisance
(d) Kindling

3. Who does the wife speak to on her way out of the building?
(a) The maid
(b) The concierge
(c) The hotel keeper
(d) The valet

4. What is Hubert's wife's name?
(a) Camille
(b) Catherine
(c) Connie
(d) Cornelia

5. In the Memoir for Chapter 9, bullfighting is considered to be a _______________.
(a) Blood sport
(b) Well-paid profession
(c) Nice way to pass an afternoon
(d) Display of idiocy

Short Answer Questions

1. In the story for Chapter 10, where is the American couple staying?

2. Why are Nick and Marjorie together on this night?

3. What does the hotel keeper have sent to the American wife in her room?

4. What does Nick say is no longer any fun?

5. The story in Chapter 8 is not so much a story as a ______________________.

(see the answer key)

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