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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) Getting ready for bed.
(b) Watching television.
(c) Reading the newspaper.
(d) Sitting down to dinner.

2. 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."

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

4. What kind of uniform is Capitano Mario Moro wearing the second time the narrator sees him?
(a) A soldier's uniform.
(b) A carabiniere's uniform.
(c) A gondolier's uniform.
(d) A fireman's uniform.

5. What does the narrator say the Palazzo in which he will be living once was?
(a) A Doge's palace.
(b) A center for a fraternal order.
(c) A British embassy.
(d) A government building.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Count Marcello talking about when he mentions oil painting and sunlight as examples?

2. What does the Count say Venetians are consumed by?

3. What does the narrator say the Fenice had been reduced to upon seeing the front of the building?

4. Who does the narrator say gets up before dawn outside his window?

5. In which quarter does the narrator take an apartment?

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