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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Count Marcello believe is responsible for the fire?
(a) The government.
(b) The police.
(c) Save Venice.
(d) The Mafia.

2. What is the main focus of Count Marcello's private library?
(a) Italian history.
(b) Art and artists.
(c) Venetian history.
(d) The history of the Marcello family.

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

4. In which quarter does the narrator take an apartment?
(a) Castello.
(b) Cannaregio.
(c) Marghera.
(d) Giudecca.

5. What does Giampaolo compare Murano to in talking about creativity?
(a) A blazing fire.
(b) A great tree.
(c) A barren field.
(d) An isolated island.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Count Marcello insist Venetians never do?

2. Who does Donadon claim to be old friends with?

3. What do the Lauritzens do while talking that makes it difficult for the narrator to follow them?

4. What does the narrator notice about characters in novels and movies set in Venice?

5. What does the Count say would have to happen for him to let go of his anger?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is the Rat Man of Treviso and what does he do? What's special about what he does?

2. What does the narrator say about Venice at the beginning of Chapter 2?

3. Paraphrase what Alvise Loredan tells the narrator at the Carnival ball in Chapter 6.

4. Who is Peter Lauritzen and how has he established himself in Venice?

5. How did Felice Casson establish himself as a hard-driving investigator?

6. What does Count Marcello seem to believe about the fire and how does he back up his opinion?

7. What does Gino Seguso tell the narrator about Giampaolo's actions and intentions since Giampaolo left the company?

8. How does the panel of experts come to the conclusion that the Fenice fire must not have been caused by arson?

9. How does the Count Giovanni Volpi describe his father?

10. What does Rosa Barovier tell the narrator about Murano and the Seguso family?

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