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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much money does Peter and Mitch's backer put up?
(a) Ten thousand quid.
(b) A thousand quid.
(c) Fifty thousand quid.
(d) Five thousand quid.

2. What is the relationship between Willow and Lampeth?
(a) They are partners in the gallery.
(b) They are mere acquaintances.
(c) They are worker and boss at the gallery.
(d) They are both art dealers for different galleries.

3. What is the name of the movie that Samantha is interested in doing?
(a) Thirteenth Night.
(b) Twelfth Night.
(c) Night, Night.
(d) A Midsummers Nights Dream.

4. What is Lampeth's business with Lipsey?
(a) Black market art.
(b) Detective work to find a painting.
(c) Smuggling of art.
(d) Detective work to find a missing family member.

5. What does Lampeth say is the reason for the increase in the art market?
(a) The high interest of the wealthy Europeans.
(b) The Americans becoming art conscious after WWII.
(c) The revival of the Renaissance.
(d) The need for investment after WWII.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has Mad Mitch set up for his and Peter's scam?

2. How does Lipsey get the landlord to let him into Dee's apartment?

3. How does Julian win over Sarah and convince her to marry him?

4. What brings Julian back to Samantha's house?

5. What do they all do once the policeman leaves Peter's house?

Short Essay Questions

1. Whose names does Mitch use to set up the bank accounts he and Peter will need? Why does he choose these names?

2. What information does the rabbi give Dee that will help her further her search?

3. How does the reader know right away that Tom is going to be trouble for Samantha?

4. Why does Julian steal and sell his wife's car?

5. Why does Peter go to work at Meunier's?

6. How does the novel open? What characters are introduced? Where are they? Why are they there? What set-up is given right away about Dee and her future?

7. What does Julian find when he returns home from selling Sarah's car, and how does he use it to his advantage?

8. What contest do Peter and Mitch have and why? What comes out of the contest?

9. Why does Julian head to Samantha's house after he speaks with his father-in-law about money?

10. What is the basic plan in forging the masterpieces as set up in the beginning of "Part II Chapter V"?

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