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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Onset, Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What interests Tony more than births and deaths and marriages?
(a) Shopping.
(b) Books.
(c) Wars.
(d) Clothes.

3. Over what lake does a breeze blow at the end of Chapter 1?
(a) Lake Erie.
(b) Lake Michigan.
(c) Lake Ponchartrain.
(d) Lake Ontario.

4. In Chapter 1, to whom does Tony say that history is a construct?
(a) Roz.
(b) West.
(c) Zenia.
(d) Her students.

5. Who does Tony describe in Chapter 1 as "a puzzle, a knot"?
(a) Roz.
(b) Zenia.
(c) Charis.
(d) West.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the beginning of Chapter 1, what has been erased, bandaged over and deliberately snarled?

2. What event is not happening on the day Tony decides to use as the starting point for Zenia's story?

3. What is the weather like on the day Tony decides to use as the starting point for Zenia's story?

4. If Tony can understand the person she thinks is a puzzle and knot, what does she hope will happen?

5. In the first line of the book, when does the narrator say the story of Zenia ought to begin?

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