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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 6: Chapters Eleven and Twelve.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the letter that Linus gets from DICOMY at the end of Chapter Twelve, what does Werner hint at?
(a) That Linus has not really been sent to investigate the orphanage.
(b) That DICOMY might replace Linus with another caseworker.
(c) That Zoe might be much more dangerous than Linus thinks.
(d) That Arthur is keeping an important secret from Linus.

2. Where does Linus get the idea that "Everything has an explanation. There is a reason for all things" (114)?
(a) From his own experience as a caseworker.
(b) He learned it in school.
(c) From RULES AND REGULATIONS.
(d) His mother taught him that.

3. In his Chapter Eleven report to DICOMY, what criticism does Linus make of the "SEE SOMETHING, SAY SOMETHING" campaign?
(a) It is vague and ineffective.
(b) It increases hostility toward magical people.
(c) It is discriminatory and wrong.
(d) It puts an unfair burden on non-magical people.

4. In Chapter Twelve, Arthur says that he prefers "bluntness to obfuscation" (226). What does this mean he likes?
(a) He likes objective and emotionally detached explanations of things.
(b) He likes to hear the plain truth of what people are thinking and feeling.
(c) He likes playful, artistic expressions of people's ideas.
(d) He likes it when people are careful and sensitive with their words.

5. What is Linus surprised to see on Lucy's walls?
(a) Paintings.
(b) Buttons.
(c) Records.
(d) Photographs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Extremely Upper Management suggest Linus do with Calliope while he is working away from home for a month?

2. Whose house do the children find in the forest in Chapter Ten?

3. How long has Linus worked for DICOMY?

4. Where does Zoe Chapelwhite live?

5. In Chapter Eleven, what does Linus tell Sal about Calliope?

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