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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9, "The Last Canto".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Leonardo Corbo, the civil protection chief from Rome, say about the fire?
(a) The fire was clearly too much for the fire brigade.
(b) Fire leaves indelible traces.
(c) The panel of experts may never really know what happened.
(d) From his vantage point, it looked like arson.

2. What does Philip Rylands do for a living?
(a) He is director of the Ezra Pound Foundation.
(b) He is a scholar.
(c) He is a writer.
(d) He is director of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection.

3. Who does the narrator say put an end to Carnival?
(a) Mussolini.
(b) Pope John XXIII.
(c) Napoleon.
(d) Mayor Cacciari.

4. Besides plants, what else does the Plant Man sell?
(a) Fruit.
(b) Salsa lessons.
(c) Chickens.
(d) Watches.

5. Which of the following gods does Lovato not mention in talking with the narrator about the interior of the Fenice?
(a) Jupiter.
(b) Bacchus.
(c) Dionysus.
(d) Apollo.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say is the most prominent feature of Felice Casson's face?

2. Where does the narrator say he's decided he'll live?

3. Which mask-making studio is well-respected, even among Venetians, according to the book?

4. How did the panel of experts come to its initial conclusion that the Fenice fire was not caused by arson?

5. Where do Venetian glassblowers traditionally work?

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