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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12, "Beware of Falling Angels".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mayor Cacciari do to protect himself from accusations of bribery in the issue of the rebuilding of the Fenice?
(a) He decides to outsource the decision of who will rebuild to a committee.
(b) He decides to confer the project in a lottery.
(c) He decides to open the project to competitive bids.
(d) He decides to leave the decision up to the Prime Minister.

2. Whose death did Daniel Curtis describe in his diary?
(a) Henry James's.
(b) Robert Browning's.
(c) Alfred Tennyson's.
(d) Claude Monet's.

3. What is Gino Seguso's view of glassmaking?
(a) He's a traditionalist.
(b) He believes only artists should make glass.
(c) He's a daring designer.
(d) He believes that family is more important than glassmaking.

4. What does the narrator notice about characters in novels and movies set in Venice?
(a) They aren't very educated.
(b) They aren't honest.
(c) They aren't Venetian.
(d) They aren't convincing characters.

5. Who is at the top of the prosecutor's list of possible defendants regarding the Fenice fire?
(a) The Prime Minister.
(b) The mayor.
(c) The Fenice's general manager.
(d) The director of the restoration work at the Fenice.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does De Luigi tell the narrator they're going to do at the end of Chapter 11?

2. Who does the narrator say sells Signor Seguso's glass creations as a way of demonstrating his renown?

3. Which covert paramilitary operation was Casson responsible for uncovering?

4. In which way does Daniel, Patricia's son, claim he is different from other Curtises?

5. What did Jane Rylands say to Harald Böhm, the sculptor who had helped Jane move the papers out of Olga's house?

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