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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V (Chapter 25 - Author's Note).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 8, why is Felicity upset about having to go to school?
(a) She would rather be a professional singer.
(b) It is finishing school, but she wants a real education.
(c) She does not like to read.
(d) She does not want to study law, and her parents have insisted on sending her to law school.

2. What does Henry say is the sweetest thing Percy has ever said to him in Chapter 13?
(a) Percy says Henry is the funniest person he has ever met.
(b) Percy says he wants Henry to come with him to law school.
(c) Percy says he would knock Henry's father out if he ever saw him again.
(d) Percy says Henry is the smartest person he knows.

3. In Chapter 27, what is Henry's first impression of Venice?
(a) He falls in love with the city.
(b) He thinks the city has better food than Paris, but that Paris has better art.
(c) He thinks the city is very dirty and gloomy.
(d) He thinks the city is not as nice as Paris is.

4. In Chapter 29, what does Helena do with her mother's heart?
(a) Throws it into the sea.
(b) Eats it.
(c) Gives it to the Duke of Bourbon.
(d) Throws it into the fire.

5. What does Henry's and Percy's conversation in Henry's garden in Chapter 7 include a discussion of?
(a) Henry's contemplating admitting himself to an asylum.
(b) Henry's contemplating getting married.
(c) Henry's contemplating suicide.
(d) Henry's contemplating running away from home.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 15, what does Felicity suggest might make her and Henry's father go easier on Henry?

2. In Chapter 25, where do Percy, Henry, and Felicity ask Scipio to take them?

3. In Chapter 12, how does Henry manage to get the bank person to give him some money from his father's account?

4. In Chapter 8, who does Henry go looking for to help with Percy's problem?

5. In Chapter 11, what does Henry's tarot-card reading feature heavily?

(see the answer key)

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