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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 18, what does Helena say of the opera when she arrives home?
(a) She is angry that everyone else missed the opera.
(b) Operas tire her.
(c) It was the worst opera she ever saw.
(d) It was the best opera she ever saw.

2. In Chapter 17, what does Helena insist on accompanying Percy, Henry, and Felicity to do?
(a) Buy food.
(b) Write a letter to the Duke of Bourbon.
(c) See the city of Barcelona.
(d) Go to the bank.

3. In Chapter 18, whose jacket does Henry borrow for the opera?
(a) Dante's.
(b) Mateu Robles's.
(c) Percy's.
(d) His father's.

4. In Chapter 14, what kind of a city is Barcelona?
(a) A port city.
(b) A musical city.
(c) A walled city.
(d) An industrial city.

5. In Chapter 18, what happens to Percy at the opera?
(a) He falls off the balcony.
(b) He feels ill and is afraid he might have a seizure.
(c) He loses all his money gambling.
(d) He gets very drunk.

Short Answer Questions

1. What offer does Helena Robles make to Felicity, Percy and Henry in Chapter 14?

2. In Chapter 19, what is the name of Mateu Robles's song about death that he composed?

3. In Chapter 15, which of the following terms does Felicity use to mean male homosexuals?

4. In Chapter 21, what is one thing Percy, Felicity and Henry drink on the ship?

5. In Chapter 17, why does Henry shudder at the thought of the panacea as Felicity describes it?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 19, what does Mateu Robles tell Henry about the form his panacea takes?

2. In Chapter 20, why does Helena stab Henry when she finds him in the study?

3. At the end of Chapter 17, what does Felicity tell both Percy and Henry that makes them both embarrassed and squeamish?

4. In Chapter 16, what does Helena Robles tell Percy and Henry her father and Percy have in common?

5. In Chapter 19, where does Mateu Robles get the cipher for the Bassegio Box?

6. In Chapter 21, why does the boatswain refuse to let Felicity, Percy, and Henry on the boat to Italy once he sees them all together?

7. In Chapter 17, why do Percy, Henry and Felicity all go to a local bookstore in Barcelona?

8. In Chapter 14, what language does Helena Robles speak to Henry when he first rings her doorbell and why is he put off when she says she does not speak English?

9. In Chapter 15, what does Felicity ask Henry about that makes Henry uncomfortable?

10. In Chapter 13, what does Helena Robles tell Henry, Percy and Felicity that devastates Henry?

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