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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jones name the ambassador's new dog?
(a) Midge.
(b) Don Juan.
(c) T-bone.
(d) Mosquito.

2. What does the purser do with his "French letters"?
(a) Hides them in his desk for the entire journey.
(b) Shows them off to Brown.
(c) Puts stamps on them so he can mail them when the ship reaches land.
(d) Blows them up into balloons.

3. At the beginning of Part 2, Chapter 2, what do Brown and Martha quarrel about?
(a) Angel's new school.
(b) The ambassador's new dog.
(c) Their future.
(d) Jones staying at the embassy.

4. What does Martha's husband think about her affair with Brown?
(a) He has threatened to throw her out of the house.
(b) He probably knows but does not object.
(c) He does not suspect anything.
(d) He has already filed for divorce.

5. On Brown's property, what does Dr. Philipot do?
(a) Hangs himself.
(b) Verbally attacks Joseph.
(c) Cuts his wrists and throat in the pool.
(d) Shoots himself through the heart.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Mr. Baxter?

2. When Brown surveys his desk in his study, what is missing?

3. When the passengers aboard the Medea have a night of entertainment, what is the first event?

4. During the ship's night of entertainment, what does Mr. Baxter recite?

5. What is Martha's opinion of Jones's relation to her family?

(see the answer key)

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