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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 book is the girl reading with whom Quinn converses in the waiting room?
(a) The New York Triology by Paul Auster.
(b) Paradise Lost by John Milton.
(c) Suicide Squeeze by William Wilson.
(d) The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle.

2. What does Virginia Stillman do after she walks Quinn to the door in Chapter 3?
(a) Screams.
(b) Slaps him.
(c) Kisses him.
(d) Begins to cry.

3. Why does Quinn decide not to continue following the second Stillman and to instead turn around and follow the first?
(a) He was following the second man out of spite.
(b) He lost sight of the second Stillman.
(c) He flipped a coin.
(d) He began to doubt that Stillman would be so elegant.

4. To which two continental philosophers does the narrator credit the concept of the "noble savage"?
(a) Milton and Dark.
(b) Nietzsche and Heidigger.
(c) Locke and Rousseau.
(d) Hume and Kant.

5. Where is Quinn the second time the telephone rings?
(a) In his office.
(b) In the bathroom.
(c) In the kitchen.
(d) In the hallway.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which text does Stillman use as the basis of his argument about the fall of man in his book?

2. Where did Virginia and Peter Stillman meet?

3. Who held Peter Stillman captive in the dark room for nine years?

4. What is Quinn's pseudonym?

5. What do Quinn and the counterman at the luncheonette commonly converse about?

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