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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Prologue: “Fire” and Part One: “Fog,” Chapters 1-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the housemaid that comes to awaken Clara on her birthday in Part One: “Fog,” Chapter 1?
(a) Mr. Pinchbeck
(b) Agnes
(c) Mrs. Fettle
(d) Cassandra

2. Where had Clara first encountered Grisini’s puppet-stage, according to the narrator in Part One: “Fog,” Chapter 1?
(a) Prospect Park
(b) Dover Park
(c) Hyde Park
(d) Central Park

3. What gemstone is on the locket that Clara’s parents give her for her birthday present in the beginning of the novel?
(a) An opal
(b) An emerald
(c) A sapphire
(d) A ruby

4. Where has Clara’s governess gone to visit her sister on the morning of Clara’s birthday party?
(a) Islington
(b) Paris
(c) Dover
(d) Westchester

5. Where had Cassandra and Grisini been when Grisini warned Cassandra of the powers of the phoenix-stone, according to the narrator in the Prologue: “Fire”?
(a) London, England
(b) Oslo, Norway
(c) Venice, Italy
(d) Paris, France

Short Answer Questions

1. What word from the Prologue: “Fire” refers to a delicate ornamental work of fine silver, gold, or other metal wires, especially lacy jewelers' work of scrolls and arabesques?

2. The children that are coming to Clara’s birthday party in Part One: “Fog,” Chapter 1 are said to be the children of her parents’ friends who live where?

3. What month is it said to be when Clara awakens on her birthday in Part One: “Fog,” Chapter 1?

4. Of Cassandra, the narrator says in the Prologue: “Fire,” “Now that she had reached the end of her life, she was a child again and feared” what?

5. The legend on the puppet cart of Grisini’s says “The Phenomenal Professor Grisini and his” what?

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