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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through City of Glass, Chapter 12-13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Auster and the narrator find in the Stillman's apartment?
(a) Nothing; it is completely empty.
(b) The red notebook.
(c) Daniel Quinn's corpse.
(d) Stillman's book.

2. What does Quinn find when he returns to his apartment?
(a) His belongings are gone and another resident is living there.
(b) Paul Auster is living there.
(c) Virginia Stillman is there waiting for him.
(d) His apartment building has burned down.

3. Where did Virginia and Peter Stillman meet?
(a) On vacation.
(b) At school.
(c) In the hospital.
(d) At a party.

4. What is the name of the persona that Stillman invents in his book in order to protect himself?
(a) Henry David Thoreau.
(b) Max Work.
(c) Humpty Dumpty.
(d) Henry Dark.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the titles of the two parts of Stillman's book?

2. What book is the girl reading with whom Quinn converses in the waiting room?

3. What does Quinn consider to be the ideal relationship between a detective and his client?

4. Where does the second meeting between Quinn and Stillman take place in Chapter 9?

5. How are the two men resembling the photograph of Stillman distinguishable?

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