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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Cincinnatus ask to turn off the lights before he goes to bed?
(a) An empty room.
(b) The spider.
(c) The prison director.
(d) The guard.

2. What is the director doing when Rodion brings Cincinnatus back to his cell from the new prisoner's cell?
(a) Bringing the new prisoner a five-course meal.
(b) Looking through the peephole in the new prisoner's door.
(c) Whistling and dancing around the hallway.
(d) Painting the new prisoner's door with red paint.

3. What does Cincinnatus credit his lawyer with?
(a) Avoiding doing anything at all at the trial.
(b) Making eloquent speeches that accomplish nothing.
(c) Making himself look good at Cincinnatus's expense.
(d) Saving him from a worse punishment than beheading.

4. What does Cincinnatus tell the lawyer is not real?
(a) Cincinnatus says that the execution isn't real.
(b) Cincinnatus says that he is not real.
(c) Cincinnatus says the people around him aren't real.
(d) Cincinnatus says the prison isn't real.

5. What does the new prisoner look like?
(a) He is small and fat.
(b) He is large and muscular.
(c) He is tall and thin.
(d) He is average in every way.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the first thing Cincinnatus says to Emmie after she slips into his room?

2. Who tells Cincinnatus that the new prisoner has arrived?

3. Who enters the cell after Cincinnatus undresses at the end of his second day in prison, snapping Cincinnatus's world back to normal?

4. What is dirtying the lawyer's back?

5. How are the books in the library catalog listed?

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