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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters Fifteen through Twenty-One.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What name does Cyrus give to his imagined younger brother?
(a) Brahms.
(b) Bach.
(c) Berlioz.
(d) Beethoven.

2. Which of the following does Cyrus address in dream-visons?
(a) Baudelaire.
(b) Verlaine.
(c) Rimbaud.
(d) Mallarmé.

3. In what role does Cyrus harangue a medical student?
(a) Samuel Clemens.
(b) Sandra Kaufmann.
(c) Sally Gutierrez.
(d) Sara Wade.

4. What rank does William M. Fogarty hold?
(a) Commodore.
(b) Rear Admiral.
(c) Vice Admiral.
(d) Admiral.

5. How does the novel render the term “sonder”?
(a) The ambiguous intensity of looking someone in the eye, which can feel simultaneously invasive and vulnerable.
(b) The realization that the plot of your life doesn’t make sense to you anymore.
(c) The realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own.
(d) The subtle but persistent feeling of being out of place.

Short Answer Questions

1. On which night does Naples host an open mic?

2. How does the novel render the term “emkanat”?

3. With what flower is the beginning of the Iranian Revolution associated in the novel?

4. What moniker do Cyrus and Zee assign to the sitting President of the United States?

5. From where does Edgar come?

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