View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the customer like who enters Ben's shop while Qwilleran is there?
(a) Angry and loud.
(b) Rude and brash.
(c) Jolly and joking.
(d) Timid and afraid.

2. Besides Miss Duckworth, what hint does Sylvia drop about Andy Glanz?
(a) He was also involved with someone else.
(b) He was actually gay.
(c) He was married.
(d) He was a serial womanizer.

3. What does Iris suggest some people disliked about Glanz?
(a) His high commitment to professional integrity.
(b) His philandering.
(c) His snobbery and reclusiveness.
(d) His cheating the clients with fake antiques.

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

5. What is the surprising purchase made by C. C. Cobb at the auction?
(a) The Macintosh Coat of Arms.
(b) The ladder Glanz fell from.
(c) The broken chandelier.
(d) The finial Glanz apparently fell on.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Miss Duckworth insist had a passionate integrity and sense of right and wrong?

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

3. What is the Daily Fluxion?

4. On his way home, who does Qwilleran overhear having an argument?

5. Who the Mathilda that Iris tells Qwilleran about?

Short Essay Questions

1. What information bombshell does Sylvia Katzenhide inadvertently drop when Qwilleran calls on her?

2. How is the cab driver's conversation with Qwilleran on the way to Junktown a foreshadowing of the novel?

3. How does Qwilleran happen to get an invitation to Mary Duckworth 's place his first night in his apartment?

4. Describe the character of C. C. Cobb.

5. How does Qwilleran learn more about Mary Duckworth?

6. Explain the development arising from the urgent barking of Mary's dog.

7. Discuss Mary Duxbury aka Mary Duckworth as a character.

8. Discuss the relationship between Qwilleran and his cats.

9. Discuss the common theme of a series of novels that includes "The Cat Who Turned On and Off".

10. What happens to prevent Iris from reading Qwilleran's palm?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 744 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample