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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Square Egg.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Reginald claim that ducks did not have?
(a) Feathers.
(b) Worries.
(c) Repose.
(d) Real life.

2. What bird builds their nests in the "battered remnants" of a poplar tree?
(a) The turtledove.
(b) The goose.
(c) The stern.
(d) The magpie.

3. In "The Chaplet," what waltz is the orchestra not playing?
(a) The Rose Colored Glasses waltz.
(b) Washington's Waltz.
(c) The Ice-cream Sailor waltz.
(d) The Starlit Night Waltz.

4. Which bird is associated with sorrow?
(a) The dove.
(b) The heron.
(c) The magpie.
(d) The finch.

5. What bird does the narrator see circling over the top of an oak-corpse?
(a) Vultures.
(b) Hawks.
(c) Cliff flycatchers.
(d) Great egrets.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of dog does Olga keep?

2. Who "harms" the buzzards at the end of "The Forbidden Buzzards"?

3. Which bird is seen "in the chill, misty hour of gloom"?

4. What is the highest mark of appreciation in Pandemonium?

5. According to the Princess, what do Russians have too much of to allow them to be light-hearted?

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