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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. Why do Bobby and Carriscan travel to Cruz's house?
(a) To recover Ward's body.
(b) To ask his advice.
(c) To gain his fingerprints.
(d) To force a confession.

2. What is Cruz's ward like when Carriscant visits it?
(a) Filthy and full of dead patients.
(b) Neat and clean but has many dead patients.
(c) Almost empty.
(d) Only one patient with a large goiter.

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

4. What is Pantaleon building?
(a) A hot-air balloon.
(b) An experimental lab.
(c) An airplane.
(d) A tank.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kay conclude about the lack of her mother's reaction to Carriscant?

2. What does Kay infer about Philip during their marriage?

3. Of what does Pantaleon inform Carriscant?

4. For how long does Carriscant say he was married to Annaliese?

5. Where does Kay have lunch with her mother?

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