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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Locked Room, Chapters 3-4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Quinn decide that fate is telling him that he cannot quit the Stillman case?
(a) Because he finds a copy of Stillman's book in a shop.
(b) Because he is unable to reach Virginia Stillman.
(c) Because he flips a coin and it comes up heads.
(d) Because he finds a photograph of Peter in the park.

2. What adjectives does Black use to describe his mask?
(a) Grotesque and frightening.
(b) Familiar and comforting.
(c) Ugly and unflattering.
(d) Funny and colorful.

3. 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.

4. According to Stillman, what secret reference do the initials H.D. have?
(a) Henry David Thoreau.
(b) Heraclitus and Democritus.
(c) Humpty Dumpty.
(d) Henry Dark.

5. How are the two men resembling the photograph of Stillman distinguishable?
(a) One of them has fewer wrinkles.
(b) One of them has brown hair.
(c) They are of different heights.
(d) They are dressed differently.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Quinn go to read Stillman's book?

2. What is the number of the box at the Brooklyn Post Office to which Blue sends his monthly reports?

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

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

5. What does Peter Stillman have in common with Quinn's son?

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