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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Three.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. About what does Ambrose admonish Sir Francis?
(a) To be careful about speaking of Americans badly.
(b) To not expect too much from a woman he is expecting to meet.
(c) To watch his investments in the film industry.
(d) To stay in better communication.

2. How are the Englishmen described?
(a) As exiles.
(b) As loners.
(c) As losers.
(d) As artists.

3. What do the various zones on the grounds in the funeral home represent?
(a) The separation of race and nationality.
(b) The cremated versus those whose bodies are buried.
(c) The varying costs of burial.
(d) Where famous versus unknown people are buried.

4. What does Dennis hear in the room where he is led?
(a) Someone sobbing.
(b) A recorded nightingale song.
(c) Someone laughing hysterically.
(d) An eerie scratching noise.

5. About whom does Dennis come to Hollywood to do a screenplay?
(a) Keats.
(b) Blake.
(c) Shelly.
(d) Wordsworth.

Short Answer Questions

1. Besides being fiction, how else is the story described in the paragraph that is set before Chapter 1?

2. What are the principal settings for this novel?

3. What has Barlow done recently?

4. In what room does the cosmetician work?

5. What is poorly received by the studio heads?

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