This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4, Paloma: Chapters 11-23, Profound Thought No. 15 and One Last Profound Thought.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Paloma tell Renee Paloma knows about the woman?
(a) That Kakuro is sweet on Renee.
(b) That Renee is quite intelligent.
(c) That Kakuro is sweet on Manuela.
(d) That Renee is lonely.

2. What does Renee thinks offers more continuity in a house than conventional doors?
(a) Open doorways.
(b) Bead curtins.
(c) Sliding doors.
(d) Bamboo curtins.

3. What is Renee thinking about when someone knocks on her door?
(a) Learning to play bridge.
(b) How to redeem herself with Manuela.
(c) What to read for the evening.
(d) Having given herself away to Kakuro.

4. What does Renee find not up to her standards?
(a) The curriculum that Paloma wants to study next semester.
(b) Paloma's own poetry.
(c) The new decorations in the lobby.
(d) Columbe's master's thesis.

5. Why does Paloma think is interesting regarding Maître Arthens?
(a) That his two children turned out to be such good people.
(b) That he had a priest come to his death bed.
(c) That he never said a kind word to anyone.
(d) That news of his death causes such excitement throughout the building.