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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many hours does Quinn sleep each night while living in the alleyway across from the Stillman's apartment?
(a) Three to four hours.
(b) One to two hours.
(c) Six to eight hours.
(d) Eight to nine hours.

2. What does Quinn like to do most in his free time?
(a) Watch sports.
(b) Play tennis.
(c) Walk through the city.
(d) Cook elaborate meals.

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

4. What doubts does Quinn have about the letters from the maps?
(a) Quinn worries that he imagined the whole thing.
(b) Quinn worries that he misspelled a word.
(c) Quinn worries that he is missing a letter.
(d) Quinn worries that Stillman has seen him.

5. What is Peter Stillman's profession?
(a) He is an engineer.
(b) He is a teacher.
(c) He is a poet.
(d) He is a firefighter.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens each time Auster tries to reach Virginia Stillman by telephone in Chapter 11?

2. What is Quinn reading when the phone rings?

3. Where did Virginia and Peter Stillman meet?

4. Whom is Auster expecting when he opens the door to Quinn?

5. Where does Stillman eat his dinner on most days?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 11, what does Quinn write about in the red notebook? According to his observations, what is the social hierarchy of the vagabond population like?

2. What is Stillman's project as he explains it to Quinn in Chapter 9? Why is this work necessary?

3. What is the financial and societal status of the Stillman family? Where do the Stillmans come from?

4. What job does Virginia Stillman hire Auster to do? How does she expect him to start?

5. What is the first thing that Quinn writes in the red notebook? Why is this significant?

6. What is unusual about the relationship between Peter Stillman and his wife Virginia? What does Virginia do to make their relationship work?

7. In Chapter 13, where does Quinn go? What does he do there?

8. What is the message spelled out by the letters of the maps in Chapter 8? What does this message reveal to Quinn about Stillman?

9. At the end of Chapter 13, what does the narrator reveal about himself? How did he become involved in the story?

10. According to Stillman's book, where should the new paradise be built? When should this building occur and why then?

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