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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 21, what is one thing Percy, Felicity and Henry drink on the ship?
(a) Sea water.
(b) Vinegar.
(c) Dark wine straight from a barrel.
(d) Malt whisky.

2. In Chapter 21, how do Felicity, Percy, and Henry manage to get passage on the boat?
(a) They dress as sailors.
(b) They steal papers from someone else to get on.
(c) They stow away in the cargo hold.
(d) They bribe the boatswain.

3. In Chapter 19, what does Henry steal?
(a) Pork.
(b) Pastries.
(c) Potatoes.
(d) Money.

4. In Chapter 18, what does Henry overhear Helena telling Dante they need to do with Percy, Henry, and Felicity?
(a) Keep them all staying there a while longer.
(b) Drug them.
(c) Convince them to hand over the Lazarus key.
(d) Play their father's music.

5. In Chapter 18, what is happening to the island in Venice that houses the panacea?
(a) It is being bulldozed for houses.
(b) It is sinking into the sea.
(c) Birds are completely taking over.
(d) A war is being fought upon its land.

6. In Chapter 22, who is injured by the commotion on the ship?
(a) Henry.
(b) Percy.
(c) Pascal.
(d) Felicity.

7. In Chapter 18, why does Mateu Robles refuse to tell Helena and Dante the cipher for the Baseggio box?
(a) He is afraid he will die himself if it ever gets out.
(b) He is afraid Helena will use it to cure herself.
(c) He is afraid Helena will give the Lazarus key to the Duke of Bourbon in order to free him from jail.
(d) He is afraid Helena and Dante will sell it.

8. In Chapter 16, what instrument is Mateu Robles's music meant to be performed upon?
(a) A flute.
(b) A harp.
(c) A piano.
(d) A crystallophone.

9. What offer does Helena Robles make to Felicity, Percy and Henry in Chapter 14?
(a) That Helena can teach Felicity, Percy and Henry how to make her father's panacea.
(b) That Felicity, Percy and Henry can stay at the Robles's house for a while.
(c) That Helena can take Felicity, Percy and Henry on a tour of the city.
(d) That Helena can pay a reward for the return of the box.

10. In Chapter 22, how are Percy, Felicity, and Henry discovered on the ship?
(a) Felicity bleeds on the floor.
(b) Percy sneezes.
(c) Percy has a seizure.
(d) Henry faints.

11. In Chapter 19, what does Henry tell Mateu Robles about Venice that surprises him?
(a) The Carnavale celebration is canceled this year.
(b) There is a plague of rats in the city so it has been sealed off from the outside.
(c) There is a terrible flu pandemic taking over.
(d) The island his wife is entombed upon is sinking.

12. In Chapter 22, why does the captain of the pirates take Henry, Felicity, and Percy onto his ship?
(a) He thinks Felicity will be able to sew new clothes for the men.
(b) He finds out Henry is an earl's son and thinks he might be able to ransom Henry.
(c) He thinks Percy can play music for them.
(d) He thinks Henry will be able to translate for them.

13. In Chapter 18, what does Henry learn from the man at the gambling table at the opera?
(a) Mateu Robles is not dead.
(b) Mateu Robles has fled to Venice.
(c) Dante is about to be arrested.
(d) Helena is not really Mateu Robles's daughter.

14. In Chapter 17, what does the book shop clerk tell Henry to look for books about?
(a) Venetian history.
(b) Greek history.
(c) Florentine history.
(d) Roman history.

15. In Chapter 19, what does Mateu Robles tell Henry about the panacea that makes him squeamish?
(a) The person who uses it must first open a vein and drain some blood from himself or herself.
(b) The person who uses it must first cut all his hair off.
(c) The heart that it is contained in must be consumed for the panacea to work.
(d) The person who uses it must first kill at least two other people.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 19, what does Percy tell Henry before Henry goes to enact his plan to get arrested?

2. In Chapter 18, why is Henry so upset with Dante when he and Felicity come back from the opera?

3. In Chapter 18, what happens to Percy at the opera?

4. In Chapter 18, whose jacket does Henry borrow for the opera?

5. In Chapter 19, what does the thief-taker do that greatly shakes Henry's composure?

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