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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 49 | Chapter 50.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is the tour guide in Chapter 35 called famous?
(a) He has been a tour guide since he was three.
(b) None of the answers is correct.
(c) He saved an important tourist from execution.
(d) He is listed in all the popular travel books.

2. Who in France claim to be barbers?
(a) Wig makers.
(b) Pharmacists.
(c) Cobblers.
(d) Physicians.

3. What obstacle faces the group as they try to enter Athens?
(a) They cannot speak the language.
(b) They cannot find food.
(c) They cannot find a tour guide.
(d) The ship is quarantined for 11 days.

4. What did young Mark Twain discover upon sneaking into his father's office?
(a) His father's affair.
(b) A revealing document.
(c) A dead body.
(d) A stray dog.

5. What does Twain imply the advertising program says?
(a) Nothing of any substance.
(b) Too much to be useful.
(c) Glorious, glamorous goofiness.
(d) Everything that needs to be said.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do the travelers swim?

2. When does Twain's first positive impression of Venice take place?

3. For what does the advertisement in the beginning of the story encourage people to register?

4. Who do the travelers drop in on to say hello while they are in Odessa?

5. What is the name of the cave in which it is said that dogs go to sleep and never wake up?

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