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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 21.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Qwilleran doing when Iris Cobb enters his room?
(a) Looking for the cats.
(b) Working on his Junktown story.
(c) Making a list of everyone he's talked to.
(d) Just getting out of the shower.

2. What is Mary's explanation for the call taken by Qwilleran?
(a) That the phone lines in Junktown are bad.
(b) That bad weather messed up the lines.
(c) That the caller probably thought it was a wrong number.
(d) That Qwilleran took too long to get to the phone.

3. Where is Koko when Qwilleran finds him?
(a) Hiding under the pot-bellied stove.
(b) At the finial in the antique shop downstairs.
(c) Closed up in the roll-top desk.
(d) On top of the roof.

4. On his way home, who does Qwilleran overhear having an argument?
(a) Hollis Prantz and Ben Nicholas.
(b) C.C. Cobb and someone who seems to be Russell Patch.
(c) Russell Patch and Sylvia Katzenhide.
(d) C. C. Cobb and Iris Cobb.

5. What puts Qwilleran off about Ben Nicolas?
(a) His dislike of cats.
(b) His dramatic way of speaking.
(c) His inferiority complex.
(d) His lack of knowledge about antiques.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Miss Duckworth talk Qwilleran into buying?

2. What does Iris say about the machine Qwilleran found?

3. When someone comes in asking for horse braces, what are they really looking for?

4. What remark of Qwilleran's makes Mary uncomfortable?

5. Why did Miss Duckworth go to the Andy Glanz's shop the night she discovered the body?

(see the answer key)

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