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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 is Quinn reading when the phone rings?
(a) Steinbeck's Travels with Charley.
(b) Shakespeare's Hamlet.
(c) Marco Polo's Travels.
(d) Tolstoy's War and Peace.

2. Who is the author of The New Babel?
(a) Daniel Quinn.
(b) Peter Stillman.
(c) John Milton.
(d) Henry Dark.

3. What are the titles of the two parts of Stillman's book?
(a) "The Myth of Hercules" and "The Myth of Sysiphus".
(b) "The Myth of Paradise" and "The Myth of Babel".
(c) "The Myth of Zeus" and "The Myth of Venus".
(d) "The Book of Life" and "The Book of Death".

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

5. According to the information in Chapter 4, who was the Scottish sailor considered to be the model for Robinson Crusoe?
(a) Captain Hook.
(b) Peter of Hanover.
(c) Alexander Selkirk.
(d) Kaspar Hauser.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Peter Stillman fear is going to murder him?

2. Where is the Stillman family from?

3. At the end of Chapter 4, Quinn begins to think of preventing Peter Stillman's murder as personal redemption for his inability to prevent the death of whom?

4. Where did Virginia and Peter Stillman meet?

5. What is the name of the hotel where Stillman stays?

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