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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10, "For a Couple of Bucks".

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What has Alistair McAlpine begun to collect?
(a) Paintings.
(b) Neckties.
(c) Boats.
(d) Police truncheons.

4. What does the Count say Venetians are consumed by?
(a) Vanity.
(b) Greed.
(c) Jealousy.
(d) Hatred.

5. Which of Signor Seguso's hands is "permanently cupped"?
(a) The right.
(b) Neither of them.
(c) The left.
(d) Both of them.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which mask-making studio is well-respected, even among Venetians, according to the book?

2. What do friends tell Rose and Peter they need to get for their downstairs apartment?

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

4. What kind of bird attacks the pigeon while the narrator is talking to Ludovico De Luigi at the beginning of Chapter 10?

5. Who was closest to Peggy Guggenheim when Philip and Jane befriended her?

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