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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What causes the mystical spell to be broken?
(a) The wager being written down in blood
(b) Charlemagne jumping up from the table and knocking the chess set to the floor
(c) Garin jumping up from the table and knocking the chess set to the floor
(d) The arrival of a set of Arab soldiers

2. How many narrative lines does the author use in this novel?
(a) 2
(b) 3
(c) 1
(d) 4

3. Who is the man that Valentine and Mireille see who walks with a slight limp?
(a) David
(b) Germaine de Stael
(c) Bishop of Autun
(d) Richelieu

4. About how many large oil companies control most of the world's production and distribution according to Catherine?
(a) 8
(b) 10
(c) 5
(d) 3

5. To what year has the author returned the reader?
(a) 1850
(b) 1972
(c) 1900
(d) 1791

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are Valentine and Mireille barely clothed at the beginning of section three?

2. Who is the person that the Bishop says wants to gain control of the service?

3. What does the Arab soldier tell Charlemagne and Garin a blood wager will bring to the person making the wager?

4. Which character is considered one of the eight "collection points?"

5. What year is it when the novel opens?

(see the answer key)

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