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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3 Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens when Brown and Mr. Smith visit the Secretary of the Interior?
(a) They are ignored for nearly an hour.
(b) They must take a number and wait in line for two hours.
(c) The Secretary pretends to be gone.
(d) They are able to see the Secretary immediately.

2. Lying on the ground next to his pool, Brown thinks that he and Martha are more intimate than ever before. Why is this?
(a) They make love gently.
(b) They talk about running away together.
(c) They trust each other with words rather than a touch.
(d) They do not talk.

3. Part 3, Chapter 1 opens with a dream that Brown has. What is this dream?
(a) Martha has locked him in his own house with Angel.
(b) His mother is again lying in her bed, deathly ill.
(c) Joseph comes back with no legs but moves faster than before.
(d) The priest will not give him communion at church.

4. How does Brown perceive his relationship to Martha, primarily?
(a) As co-conspirators rather than lovers.
(b) As the most important part of his life.
(c) As star-crossed lovers.
(d) As mere amusement in his boring life.

5. Why does Angel want to meet Brown?
(a) Because he will ask him for chocolate biscuits.
(b) So he is not left out from the circle of his parents' friends.
(c) Because Martha egged him on to meet Brown.
(d) Because he is jealous of Brown.

Short Answer Questions

1. Before beginning work on the vegetarian center, what does the Secretary for Social Welfare want from Mr. Smith?

2. When Brown arrived for the first time at the Hotel Trianon in Haiti, who was with his mother?

3. When Brown hears footsteps outside his hotel, what weapon does he grab?

4. When Brown visits Jones the afternoon after the Smiths leave town, what do the two men drink?

5. After the war, how did Brown feed himself?

(see the answer key)

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