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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Cincinnatus do to try and look out the window?
(a) He crawls through a tunnel.
(b) He climbs up the wall.
(c) He jumps up in the air.
(d) He stands on a table.

2. What is Rodrig Ivanovich holding after Cincinnatus reads the letter?
(a) A wall calendar.
(b) A desk lamp.
(c) A carving knife.
(d) A large apple.

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

4. What words does Cincinnatus see written on the wall of the hallway?
(a) Testing brush.
(b) Give up already.
(c) Look up.
(d) No one was here.

5. What is Cincinnatus's lawyer looking for when he visits Cincinnatus?
(a) The lawyer is looking for his library card.
(b) The lawyer is looking for his pen.
(c) The lawyer is looking for his reading glasses.
(d) The lawyer is looking for his cufflink.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Cincinnatus describe as discovering, as he takes off layer after layer of his clothes/himself?

2. How does the judge deliver Cincinnatus' sentence?

3. Besides blades, what does Rodion's penknife have?

4. What does Cincinnatus think is happening when he wakes up the third day?

5. What happens when Marthe's grandfather goes to light Marthe's father's cigarette?

(see the answer key)

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