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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4, Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What evidence does Hilary Swallow have of her husband's cheating?
(a) An examination booklet.
(b) A photograph.
(c) Love letters.
(d) A recorded phone call.

2. What book is Akira Sakazaki translating into Japanese?
(a) "Could Try Harder."
(b) "Any Road."
(c) "Beyond Criticism."
(d) "Hazlitt and the Amateur Reader."

3. What character was Angelica playing in the literary work being enacted in Lausanne?
(a) The Hyacinth Girl.
(b) Eugenides.
(c) Madame Sosostris, Clairvoyante.
(d) Belladonna, the Lady of Situations.

4. In what city does Akbil Borak teach?
(a) Oxford.
(b) Padua.
(c) Queenstown.
(d) Ankara.

5. What literary work is referenced in the prayer Persse had previously hung up in the airport chapel?
(a) "The Faerie Queene."
(b) "Pamela."
(c) "The Waste Land."
(d) "Orlando Furioso."

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Hilary wearing at the end of Part I, Chapter 2?

2. What sound does Lodge use to symbolize all of the traveling that occurs during "conference season"?

3. What does "McGarrigle" mean in Irish?

4. Where does Persse discover that Angelica studied for a year?

5. What does Philip Swallow have thrown at him at the medieval banquet?

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