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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters The Four-Cylinder 12 HP Flanquin; 1903; Two Propellers Pushing; Rain; Scalpel; The Blue Afternoon; The Girls on the Pony; Hippotheetical; and The Sutured Heart.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Pantaleon decide upon to push the aircraft?
(a) Two reverse propellers.
(b) An American tank.
(c) A team of six horses.
(d) Six forward propellers.

2. What does Carriscant often think of doing?
(a) Leaving his wife and son.
(b) Getting out of the practice of law.
(c) Visiting a prostitute.
(d) Killing his wife.

3. What does Kay think started Philip on the road to his alcoholism?
(a) Flunking out of MIT.
(b) Losing his fortune in the stock market crash of 1929.
(c) Losing his father and older brother in a mining accident.
(d) The death of his son.

4. What does Philip say about Kay since they divorced?
(a) She has gotten hard.
(b) She has become weepy.
(c) She has gained weight.
(d) She has ignored his family.

5. What happens when Carriscant crosses a field on his way home?
(a) He falls into a wild boar trap.
(b) He is accosted by a large Irish wolfhound.
(c) He is nearly shot by some women with bows.
(d) He falls and twists his ankle.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where has Ward's body been taken?

2. Why do Carriscant and Pantaleon argue?

3. What happened to Kay about the same time that Philip begins his drinking habit?

4. What happens when Kay visits Philip?

5. What does Kay do to gauge her mother's response?

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