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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Desiderio find dead in Chapter 2, The Mansion of Midnight?
(a) LaFleur.
(b) Albertina.
(c) Mary Anne.
(d) The Count.

2. Who has gone missing in Chapter 2, The Mansion of Midnight?
(a) The king.
(b) The Mayor.
(c) Albertina.
(d) The Minister.

3. Whose mother led to the falling out between Mendoza and Dr. Hoffman?
(a) Albertina's.
(b) Desiderio's.
(c) Dr. Hoffman's.
(d) The Professor's.

4. What does the man who had rescued Desiderio ask him to teach him in Chapter 3, The River People?
(a) How to fish.
(b) English.
(c) French.
(d) Mathematics.

5. What did the group of scientists do in Chapter 1, The City Under Siege?
(a) All got married.
(b) Committed suicide.
(c) Fled the city.
(d) Transformed into animals.

6. How does Desiderio discover the act of the acrobats is achieved in Chapter 4, The Acrobats of Desire?
(a) Mirrors.
(b) Machines.
(c) Levitation.
(d) Smoke.

7. Who is Desiderio's master in the beginning of the story?
(a) Doctor Hoffman.
(b) The Minister of Determination.
(c) The Professor.
(d) The Count.

8. Who is playing the piano when Desiderio arrives at the Mayor's Mansion in Chapter 2, The Mansion of Midnight?
(a) Mary Anne.
(b) Elizabeth.
(c) The Mayor.
(d) The Mayor's wife.

9. How many acrobats join the carnival in Chapter 4, The Acrobats of Desire?
(a) 5.
(b) 12.
(c) 4.
(d) 9.

10. What does Desiderio find in the purse given to him by the acrobats in Chapter 4, The Acrobats of Desire?
(a) A train ticket.
(b) Eyes.
(c) Money.
(d) Lipstick.

11. What does Desiderio's fiance begin doing after the engagement in Chapter 3, The River People?
(a) Sewing wheat in the field.
(b) Building a cage.
(c) Singing in the meadow.
(d) Coming to his room at night.

12. Who told the Professor to take in Desiderio in Chapter 4, The Acrobats of Desire?
(a) Alberina.
(b) Dr. Hoffman.
(c) The Minister.
(d) Mendoza.

13. What does Desiderio find to be desolate and abandoned in Chapter 2, The Mansion of Midnight?
(a) The town hall.
(b) The promenade.
(c) The cathedral.
(d) The local pub.

14. Desiderio's Minister saved a man by doing what in Chapter 1, The City Under Siege?
(a) Walking on water.
(b) Shooting a man.
(c) Bombing a village.
(d) Stopping a train.

15. What were many of the Indians' customers aware of, which they used against them?
(a) Their alcoholism.
(b) Their illiteracy.
(c) Their cannibalism.
(d) Their marriage rites.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Desiderio escape in the end of Chapter 2, The Mansion of Midnight?

2. What had Desiderio always felt ashamed of?

3. What does Desiderio see inside the peep show in Chapter 2, The Mansion of Midnight?

4. Against whom does the narrator describe having fought a war in the beginning of The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman?

5. Who does Desiderio find irresistible in Chapter 1, The City Under Siege?

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