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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5 and 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author call an art?
(a) Autograph hunting.
(b) House watching.
(c) Star gazing.
(d) House sitting.

2. What is the title of Chapter 7?
(a) The Angry Puppy.
(b) The Yellow Armchair.
(c) The Purple Wig.
(d) The Red Pullover.

3. What is a vitrine?
(a) A pair of tweezers.
(b) A glass cabinet.
(c) A netsuke polish.
(d) An alcoholic drink.

4. What was the name of the man that Charles brought his netsukes from?
(a) Swann.
(b) Dreyfus.
(c) Sichel.
(d) Bourbon.

5. Which of Charles' engravings does Edmund wonder if visitors to his house saw?
(a) The uno la.
(b) The English Patient.
(c) The lit de parade
(d) The Nuovo Rebeccani.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the staircase in the medical insurance office curl up like?

2. In which Russian city were Jews allowed to live?

3. Where does the author say was the best place to buy Japanese art?

4. Where does the author say is the best place out side of Japan to see Japanese art?

5. What does Edmund compare glass cases in museums to?

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