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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who do the townspeople talking at Haig's Bar believe is responsible for the fire?
(a) The police.
(b) The government.
(c) Save Venice.
(d) The Mafia.

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

3. 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 never liked Venice.
(d) Because he had a mistress.

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

5. What animal does the narrator physically compare Venice to?
(a) A fish.
(b) A frog.
(c) A lion.
(d) A cat.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator call his game of taking pictures at unplanned moments?

2. When does the narrator say he'd fallen under Venice's spell?

3. What is Contessa Marcello's main, immediate concern when she hears about the fire?

4. What does the Plant Man like to ask people?

5. Where does the Count Giuseppe Volpi live?

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