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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 3, 4 and 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Qwilleran learn from overhearing customers in the Blue Dragon?
(a) That Glanz was a drug dealer.
(b) That Glanz was two-timing several women.
(c) That Miss Duckworth was Glanz's girlfriend.
(d) That Miss Duckworth has a criminal record.

2. What is the Daily Fluxion?
(a) A newspaper.
(b) An eccentric clock.
(c) The changing tides.
(d) An antique magazine.

3. How does Miss Duckworth make a melodramatic appearance in the novel?
(a) In a swirl of green smoke.
(b) Sitting like a statue on a lounge.
(c) Gliding down a circular staircase.
(d) Through a beaded curtain.

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

5. What is Jim Qwilleran's occupation?
(a) Newspaper reporter.
(b) Antique dealer.
(c) Policeman.
(d) Private detective.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are two items of furniture moved into Qwilleran's rooms before he moves in?

2. How does Iris categorize Miss Duckworth since Glanz's death?

3. What does Iris suggest some people disliked about Glanz?

4. What is settled before Qwilleran takes the apartment?

5. What is the gossip about the finial?

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