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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the book's end imply about Persse's future actions?
(a) He intends to become a full-time poet.
(b) He intends to fight Peter for Angelica.
(c) He intends to marry Lily.
(d) He intends to look for Cheryl.

2. With whom have the Ringbaums tagged along to the prizegiving party?
(a) Rudyard Parkinson.
(b) Felix Skinner.
(c) Persse McGarrigle.
(d) Ronald Frobisher.

3. Who helps Persse decipher the reference he finds on his prayer?
(a) Bernadette.
(b) Cheryl Summerbee.
(c) Morris Zapp.
(d) Professor McCreedy.

4. Who is mentioned in a newspaper cutting sent to Morris Zapp as a possible UNESCO chair?
(a) Ronald Frobisher.
(b) Siegfried von Turpitz.
(c) Michel Tardieu.
(d) Philip Swallow.

5. Who asks the final question of the speakers at "The Function of Criticism" forum?
(a) Angelica Pabst.
(b) Jacques Textel.
(c) Fulvia Morgana.
(d) Persse McGarrigle.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Angelica have an inverted comma-shaped birthmark?

2. What does "halcyon" mean in Greek?

3. What does Persse do while waiting for the travel agents to set up his rental house?

4. What does "McGarrigle" mean in Irish?

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

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