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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is uneasy in Lydia's world?
(a) Pascali and Izzet.
(b) Bowles and Izzet.
(c) Pascali and Bowles.
(d) Pascali and Smith.

2. Who said that motion its self is an illusion.
(a) Parmenides.
(b) Pascali.
(c) Bowles.
(d) Socrates.

3. Of what does Pascali warn the Sultan?
(a) A possible assassination attempt in the near future.
(b) That the island will likely attempt to get out from under Turkish rule.
(c) That he has watched the Empire slowly deteriorate.
(d) That the volcano will blow soon.

4. What does Lydia think free expression does?
(a) It encourages the irrational.
(b) It encourages imprecision.
(c) It spills over into dangerous areas such as politics.
(d) It makes one think the impossible is possible.

5. To what does Pascali compare the sea?
(a) To humans, tormented and violent.
(b) To the waves of fortune.
(c) To the violence of an assassination.
(d) To the depths of one's mind that cannot by plumbed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Pascali say he does to his stories?

2. What does Pascali believe about humankind?

3. What meetings does Pascali stop attending months ago?

4. What parallel does Pascali see with his report?

5. What could deaths on the island do?

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