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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. What does the narrator say the Fenice had been reduced to upon seeing the front of the building?
(a) A mess.
(b) A fire pit.
(c) A lump of coal.
(d) A mask.

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

3. Where is Peter from originally?
(a) Ohio.
(b) Illinois.
(c) California.
(d) Massachusetts.

4. What does the narrator say the Ateneo Veneto once housed?
(a) The Academy of Art.
(b) A museum of Venetian history.
(c) A fraternal order dedicated to escorting condemned prisoners to the gallows.
(d) A fraternal order of monks.

5. What animal does the narrator physically compare Venice to?
(a) A frog.
(b) A cat.
(c) A lion.
(d) A fish.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the main focus of Count Marcello's private library?

2. What sport is Casson passionate about?

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

4. What is Gino Seguso's view of glassmaking?

5. Who is at the top of the prosecutor's list of possible defendants regarding the Fenice fire?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain what Rose tells the narrator about the safety of the city of Venice.

2. Explain what Guerrino Lovato tells the narrator about the interior of the Fenice.

3. What does Peter say to the narrator about "sloganeering"?

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

5. What does the Fenice custodian's attorney say about the panel of experts?

6. What does the narrator learn about Alistair McAlpine at the party?

7. What does the narrator say about Napoleon and what do these comments have to do with the current state of Venice?

8. How does Archimede Seguso react to the fire?

9. Describe Rose's experiences with Ezra Pound.

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

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