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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 6, 7 and 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is Iris helpful to Qwilleran at the auction?
(a) She identifies several people from Junktown.
(b) Sshe tells him about the history of Junktown.
(c) She invites him to dinner.
(d) She confides that Glanz was murdered.

2. Whose name does Miss Duckworth supply to Qwilleran?
(a) The owner of The Junkery.
(b) The dead dealer Andrew Glanz.
(c) Glanz's lover, Sylvia Katzenhide.
(d) The likely suspect, C. C. Cobb.

3. What does Qwilleran feed his Siamese cats he brought from the Press Club?
(a) Turkey.
(b) Beef and kidney pie.
(c) Boiled beef.
(d) Fish and chips.

4. Who the Mathilda that Iris tells Qwilleran about?
(a) A woman involved in witchcraft.
(b) A vagabond woman in the neighborhood.
(c) The ghost in her house.
(d) Another of the junk dealers.

5. What amazes Qwilleran about the Mackintosh Coat of Arms?
(a) It is his family's coat of arms.
(b) How easily Miss Duckworth lifts it.
(c) It is obviously a fake.
(d) It is not an antique.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the furniture refinisher Iris Cobb identifies?

2. What is the idea Qwilleran comes up with as an article for the writing contest?

3. What does Qwilleran learn from overhearing customers in the Blue Dragon?

4. How does Miss Duckworth make a melodramatic appearance in the novel?

5. What is the Daily Fluxion?

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