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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13, "The Man Who Loved Others".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Gae Aulenti known for?
(a) Her work on the Louvre.
(b) Her work on the Opéra de Paris.
(c) Her work on the Gare de Lyon.
(d) Her work on the Musée D'Orsay.

2. What was found in the remnants of the floorboards of the Fenice?
(a) A highly combustible solvent.
(b) A remnant of a cigarette.
(c) Blowtorch marks.
(d) Electrical sparks.

3. What does Count Marcello's speech to the board center around?
(a) His reasons for his impending resignation.
(b) Lovett's incompetence.
(c) Guthrie's incompetence.
(d) The organization's image in Venice.

4. How many doges were in Alvise Loredan's family?
(a) Three.
(b) Eight.
(c) Two.
(d) Four.

5. What did Olga say in the letter sent to the Cleveland attorney after she realized what had happened?
(a) It was her firm intention to dissolve the "Ezra Pound Foundation".
(b) She had reconsidered the sale of Ezra's personal belongings.
(c) She had reconsidered the sale of her archive.
(d) She would fight until she got her house back.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the quote on Stefani's gravestone come from?

2. What has Alistair McAlpine begun to collect?

3. Who did Jane Rylands want painted into the portrait of Dadie Rylands she had commissioned?

4. What does the glass historian Rosa Barovier tell the narrator about the Segusos?

5. Which reminders of "La Traviata, Rigoletto and Tancredi" were supposedly housed in the Fenice according to one of the dinner guests at the Carnival ball?

(see the answer key)

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