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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, "Glass Warfare".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Count Marcello insist Venetians never do?
(a) Sit on St. Mark's square.
(b) Lie.
(c) Walk to work.
(d) Tell the truth.

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

3. Why does Lovato oppose the building of a modern new opera house?
(a) The focus should be completely on the stage.
(b) It's important to preserve the experience that the architect created for the spectator.
(c) For aesthetic reasons.
(d) It would damage the acoustics.

4. What does Signor Seguso say his object is when he meets the narrator?
(a) "Perfect."
(b) "Dawn."
(c) "Dusk."
(d) "Unfinished."

5. What is "Antica Mole"?
(a) A canal near the narrator's new apartment.
(b) A tourist attraction.
(c) An important museum and cultural center.
(d) A trattoria near the narrator's new apartment.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Leonardo Corbo, the civil protection chief from Rome, say about the fire?

4. Why does Giampaolo say he trademarked the name Archimede Seguso?

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

(see the answer key)

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