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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1: Pages 44-110.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What should Zachary be doing for his thesis?
(a) Creating a video game.
(b) Writing about England in the 1700s.
(c) Playing, replaying, and analyzing video games.
(d) Researching extinct mammals.

2. On page 56, where does Zachary go for a party?
(a) Long Island.
(b) Queens.
(c) Manhattan.
(d) Brooklyn.

3. What is the name of the missing cat at the masquerade at the Algonquin?
(a) Smokey.
(b) Matilda.
(c) Tabby.
(d) Gertrude.

4. Where does Interlude 1 take place?
(a) Philadelphia.
(b) Chicago.
(c) New Orleans.
(d) Denver.

5. What scent permeates everything that belongs to a boy who is the son of a fortune-teller?
(a) Ginger.
(b) Incense.
(c) Cinnamon.
(d) Sage.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the beginning of the book, what is in the basement?

2. Since a book had been placed in a university library, how many times had it been read in full?

3. When is a photograph from the Alongquin Hotel Annual Literary Masquerade taken of a woman wearing a necklace that has a bee, a sword, and a key?

4. After Zachary reads about himself in "Sweet Sorrows," what does the narrative of the book shift to?

5. What bar does Zachary go to after helping with Kat's class?

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