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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 53 - 61.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does "castigo divino" translate to in English?
(a) Divine punishment.
(b) Divine blessings.
(c) Divine retribution.
(d) Divine vision.

2. To what deity did the Greeks attribute the ocean's tides?
(a) Poseidon.
(b) Athena.
(c) Hera.
(d) Artemis.

3. Who promised Admiral Luis Avila that he would be admitted to the museum, according to the narrator in Chapter 7?
(a) The Regent.
(b) The King.
(c) Edmond Kirsch.
(d) The Prince.

4. Who was the French naturalist that some historians claim Darwin stole his ideas from?
(a) Stephen J. Gould.
(b) Paloma Calvo.
(c) Jean-Baptiste Lamarck.
(d) Dr. Mateo Valero.

5. What did Edmond Kirsch's mother do after placing him in an orphanage?
(a) She entered a convent.
(b) She moved in with her mother.
(c) She remarried.
(d) She went to prison.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of Edmond Kirsch's father?

2. Where did Allamah Syed al-Fadl note the symbol on the Spaniard who abducted him?

3. In what century did the city of Baghdad rise to prominence as the greatest center of learning on earth?

4. What serves as the inciting incident which sets off the rising action of the novel?

5. What is the Spanish word that means computer?

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