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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, "Slow Burn".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do friends tell Rose and Peter they need to get for their downstairs apartment?
(a) A "magazzino."
(b) An air conditioner.
(c) Rat screens.
(d) A "condono."

2. What does the narrator say the Ateneo Veneto once housed?
(a) The Academy of Art.
(b) A museum of Venetian history.
(c) A fraternal order of monks.
(d) A fraternal order dedicated to escorting condemned prisoners to the gallows.

3. Why does Count Volpi say the Venetians vilify his father?
(a) Because he had a mistress.
(b) Because the Marghera now creates a lot of ecological problems.
(c) Because he became wealthy through his hotel business.
(d) Because he never liked Venice.

4. Where is Peter from originally?
(a) Ohio.
(b) Illinois.
(c) Massachusetts.
(d) California.

5. Why does the narrator ask about the screens on the window?
(a) He's surprised that mosquitoes can fly right through.
(b) He feels claustrophobic with screens on the windows.
(c) He thinks the meshing is too fine to be effective.
(d) He'd like to have better access to the fresh air.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the Count Giuseppe Volpi live?

2. Who enters into a P.R. war with Luciano Pavarotti over the benefit concert for the rebuilding of the Fenice?

3. What does the narrator say the officials are quick to do at the meeting in the Ateneo Veneto?

4. What do the young girls talking with the carabinieri want?

5. Who does the narrator say defeated Venice at the height of its grandeur?

(see the answer key)

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