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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through City of Glass, Chapter 6-7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Quinn and the counterman at the luncheonette commonly converse about?
(a) Literature.
(b) The weather.
(c) Football.
(d) Baseball.

2. Who held Peter Stillman captive in the dark room for nine years?
(a) His mother.
(b) His brother.
(c) His wife.
(d) His father.

3. According to Stillman's notes in Chapter 5, which character does he suspect of not being trustworthy?
(a) Virginia Stillman.
(b) Paul Auster.
(c) Peter Stillman.
(d) The counterman at the luncheonette.

4. According to the telephone conversation at the end of Chapter 1, why does the caller need Quinn to protect him?
(a) The caller has committed a crime.
(b) The caller believes he is going to be murdered.
(c) The caller is paranoid.
(d) The caller is a celebrity.

5. What is Quinn's pseudonym?
(a) Max Work.
(b) William Wilson.
(c) Peter Stillman.
(d) Thomas Williams.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of The New Babel?

2. Where did Virginia and Peter Stillman meet?

3. What does Virginia Stillman do after she walks Quinn to the door in Chapter 3?

4. To which two continental philosophers does the narrator credit the concept of the "noble savage"?

5. What is Quinn wearing when he first begins writing notes about the Stillman case in Chapter 5?

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