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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, "Sleepwalking".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are Signor and Signora Seguso doing when they notice the fire?
(a) Watching television.
(b) Reading the newspaper.
(c) Getting ready for bed.
(d) Sitting down to dinner.

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

3. What does the narrator say the Fenice had been reduced to upon seeing the front of the building?
(a) A mask.
(b) A lump of coal.
(c) A fire pit.
(d) A mess.

4. What do the men trying to net the pigeons scatter for them?
(a) Bread crumbs.
(b) Rice.
(c) Cornmeal.
(d) Seeds.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of uniform is Capitano Mario Moro wearing the second time the narrator sees him?

2. What does Dr. Scattolin say will happen to the healthy pigeons?

3. What kind of mentality does Peter say doesn't exist in Venice?

4. Why does the narrator ask about the screens on the window?

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

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