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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two: “Ice,” Chapters 47-51 and Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word from Part Two: “Ice” means unsure or uncertain?
(a) Assertive
(b) Filigree
(c) Calamity
(d) Tentative

2. What is Parsefall doing when Grisini returns home in Part One: “Fog,” Chapter 15?
(a) Rehearsing with a puppet
(b) Talking on the telephone to his mother
(c) Writing a letter to his father
(d) Eating breakfast

3. 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?
(a) Her father
(b) Being alone
(c) Loud noises
(d) The dark

4. What is the title of Part Two: “Ice,” Chapter 49?
(a) The Confession Resumed
(b) The Wintermutes’ Christmas
(c) The Puppet Master
(d) The Black Place

5. Where does Parsefall look forward to returning to in the novel’s Epilogue?
(a) Dublin
(b) New York
(c) London
(d) Paris

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Clara feel about performing as a puppet in Part One: “Fog,” Chapter 23?

2. How many pence make up a shilling?

3. What word from Part Two: “Ice” refers to a person who works for another in order to learn a trade?

4. Who does Lizzie Rose find standing at the door when she answers the doorbell in Part Two: “Ice,” Chapter 50?

5. How many years ago had Grisini warned Cassandra of the phoenix-stone’s powers, according to the narrator in the Prologue: “Fire”?

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