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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, The Decline.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to Latimer while everyone is visiting Lichtenberg Palace?
(a) He has one vision of him killing Alfred.
(b) He has one vision of Bertha as his wife.
(c) He asks Bertha to marry him.
(d) He passes out.

2. What does Latimer remember Prague being like?
(a) A long row of trees with muiti-colored birds in the branches.
(b) A cold and dark place.
(c) A city that brings only fear and hatred.
(d) A patch of rainbow light on the pavement, transmitted through a colored lamp in the shape of a star.

3. What will the narrator die from?
(a) A gunshot wound.
(b) A heart attack.
(c) Poison.
(d) A brain aneurysm.

4. When is the wedding between Alfred and Bertha to take place?
(a) The following summer.
(b) The following winter.
(c) The following fall.
(d) The following spring.

5. After returning home from his walk with Bertha, what does Latimer learn?
(a) That his father has died.
(b) That Bertha's plan to run away has been found out.
(c) That Alfred found out about the talk to Bertha.
(d) That his brother, Alfred, has died.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Latimer describe as sarcastic, cynical, and unimaginative?

2. Who does Latimer return home from Switzerland with?

3. Why does Latimer like running water?

4. What does Latimer compare to his mother's love?

5. When the narrator rings the bell during the last moments of life, who comes in to help?

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