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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Toxique, Chapters 50-55.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Tony believe has helped her gain acceptance in the traditionally male field of the study of the history of warfare?
(a) Her tiny size.
(b) Her beauty.
(c) Her great intellect.
(d) Her brilliant doctoral dissertation.

2. What do Zenia and her male companion seem to be doing when Zenia sees them at the beginning of Chapter 28?
(a) Getting married.
(b) Kissing.
(c) Arguing.
(d) Making a financial transaction.

3. What does Roz find out about Zenia's past in Berlin and her career as a reporter?
(a) Zenia was a Nazi instead of a Jew.
(b) Zenia was a spy.
(c) All her stories are true.
(d) All her stories are lies.

4. In Chapter 1, what is the topic of what Tony describes as one of her more convoluted lectures?
(a) French colonialism.
(b) The dynamics of spontaneous massacres.
(c) The Italian Renaissance.
(d) The English Regency.

5. In Chapter 1, what does Tony say comes unraveled if you "pick any strand and snip"?
(a) Tony's life.
(b) History.
(c) Zenia's love for West.
(d) Roz's knitting.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who taught Tony to make a cup of tea?

2. Who reverses words and thinks and writes them backwards?

3. What begins to appear in Roz's home once Roz's father returns from the war?

4. Who is the narrator in the first chapter of "The Robber Bride"?

5. Where are Zenia's ashes interred in Chapter 3?

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