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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who enters the cell after Cincinnatus undresses at the end of his second day in prison, snapping Cincinnatus's world back to normal?
(a) The spider.
(b) Rodion.
(c) Marthe.
(d) The prison director.

2. What time does the cell light go out?
(a) At nine o'clock.
(b) At ten o'clock.
(c) At eleven o'clock.
(d) At midnight.

3. What does Cincinnatus attribute the scratching on the walls to?
(a) Someone tunneling toward him to help him escape.
(b) An unknown prisoner in the next cell trying to communicate.
(c) Rats in the walls.
(d) His own overactive imagination.

4. Where does the lawyer take Cincinnatus during their meeting?
(a) The prison basement.
(b) The lawyer's home.
(c) The prison roof.
(d) Cincinnatus's home.

5. What animal arrives with Marthe and her family?
(a) A bulldog.
(b) An iguana.
(c) A black cat.
(d) An albino rat.

Short Answer Questions

1. What irrelevant detail does the letter mention?

2. What does the librarian refuse to do?

3. In the prison rule number two, what does it say is the prison's pride?

4. What animal does Pierre compare Cincinnatus to?

5. What does Cincinnatus say when he learns his mother has come to see him?

(see the answer key)

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