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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which spaceship lift-off does Ralph Curtis play for the narrator?
(a) Apollo 12.
(b) Apollo 14.
(c) Apollo 11.
(d) Apollo 15.

2. What is Gae Aulenti known for?
(a) Her work on the Louvre.
(b) Her work on the Musée D'Orsay.
(c) Her work on the Gare de Lyon.
(d) Her work on the Opéra de Paris.

3. What does Ezra say "Her name was" in the last Canto?
(a) Courage.
(b) Remembrance.
(c) Beauty.
(d) Olga.

4. Who is the "important" man the narrator sees on a water taxi at the beginning of Chapter 11?
(a) Aldo Rossi.
(b) Tonci Foscari.
(c) Gianni Agnelli.
(d) "Angel Face" Maniero.

5. What does the Gazettino report about the theory that Carella and Marchetti set the fire for others?
(a) The theory seems unlikely.
(b) The theory has become a certainty.
(c) The theory discounts the role of political negligence.
(d) The theory seems likely.

6. Which prize was offered to Lawrence Dow Lovett in Chapter 12?
(a) The Pietro Torta Prize.
(b) The Aga Khan Award for Architecture.
(c) The Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award.
(d) The Pritzker Prize.

7. Where does Mary de Rachwiltz live?
(a) On San Michele.
(b) In the South Tyrol.
(c) In Venice.
(d) In Germany.

8. Which famous Sargent painting did Ariana Curtis refuse to accept as a gift?
(a) "Head of an Italian Woman."
(b) "An Interior in Venice."
(c) "Madame X."
(d) "Portrait of Mrs. Daniel Sargent Curtis."

9. How long did Daniel Curtis spend in jail before immigrating to Venice?
(a) One year.
(b) Two months.
(c) One month.
(d) Two years.

10. What does Gardin do each time a message is written on his wife's shop window?
(a) He takes pictures for evidence.
(b) He asks his friends to come over.
(c) He calls a press conference.
(d) He files a complaint with the police.

11. 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.

12. What does Count Marcello's speech to the board center around?
(a) His reasons for his impending resignation.
(b) Lovett's incompetence.
(c) Guthrie's incompetence.
(d) The organization's image in Venice.

13. What did Jane Rylands say to Harald Böhm, the sculptor who had helped Jane move the papers out of Olga's house?
(a) "Be sure you don't tell Philip about today, or peggio per te."
(b) "Be sure you don't tell anybody about today, or peggio per te."
(c) "Be sure you don't tell Olga about today, or peggio per te."
(d) "Be sure you don't tell Arrigo about today, or peggio per te."

14. Where did Larry Lovett's fortune come from?
(a) Kroger.
(b) Wal-Mart.
(c) Safeway.
(d) Piggly Wiggly.

15. How does Aldo Rossi insist on being addressed?
(a) "Tu."
(b) "Lei."
(c) "Signor."
(d) "Voi."

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose house did Foscari and his team find beneath the Malibran Theater?

2. What did Ezra ask Mary to do as an exercise that led to her lifelong study of his work?

3. How does Migliori intend to secure the fresco?

4. Why does Guthrie tell Lovett that he "...titled himself into oblivion"?

5. What does the narrator say he drinks while visiting the Marchetti family?

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