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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Vheissu?
(a) A fountain.
(b) A volcano.
(c) A drink.
(d) A place where rules do not hold sway.

2. What is the name of the dentist who treats Stencil?
(a) Winsome.
(b) Strangelove.
(c) Dudley Eigenvalue.
(d) Schoenmaker.

3. What is Lepsius wearing at the party?
(a) Blue-tinted eyeglasses.
(b) A gun holster.
(c) A cravat.
(d) A carmelian rose.

4. Where does Benny find Paola after spending time with the night watchman?
(a) Standing on the beam.
(b) On the deck.
(c) In the bathroom.
(d) At the ferry.

5. What does Paola offer that Fina does not for Profane?
(a) Beauty.
(b) A deeper connection.
(c) Brains.
(d) Money.

6. What is the name of the tavern that Benny Profane enters in Norfolk, Virginia on Christmas Eve, 1955?
(a) Mermaid Tavern.
(b) Sailor's Grave.
(c) Reservoir.
(d) Butch Cat.

7. What does Angel do for a living?
(a) He catches alligators in the sewers of New York City.
(b) He dances in Times Square.
(c) He cooks meat.
(d) He kills people.

8. Who is the world adventurer looking for?
(a) Benny.
(b) Rachel.
(c) Slab.
(d) A woman he knows as V.

9. What is the name of the record executive's wife?
(a) Mafia.
(b) Rachel.
(c) V.
(d) Esther.

10. What is the name of the pilot who needed facial reconstruction?
(a) Dr. Schoenmaker.
(b) Evan Godolphin.
(c) Profane.
(d) Esther.

11. Who is Dr. Shale Schoenmaker?
(a) A cardiovascular surgeon.
(b) A dentist.
(c) A podiatrist.
(d) A plastic surgeon.

12. Who is Esther's lover?
(a) Dr. Schoenmaker.
(b) Harriet.
(c) Benny.
(d) Rachel.

13. Who in New York pretends to not know anything about the person that the world adventurer is looking for?
(a) Dr. Schoenmaker.
(b) Rachel Owlglass.
(c) Margaret Sloane.
(d) Paoloa Mijstral.

14. What are the two men planning to do that a third man called Gaucho disagrees with?
(a) To enter a cooking competition.
(b) To kidnap the wine owner's daughter.
(c) To enter the Uffizi and steal a painting.
(d) To start a war.

15. What is the name of the record executive?
(a) Mafia.
(b) Fairing.
(c) Winsome.
(d) Benny.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are Mantissa, Cesare, and the Gaucho about to do when Mantissa has a change of heart, forcing them all to flee?

2. What is the name of the owner of the bar in Norfolk, Virginia?

3. Why did Victoria part with her father and her sister?

4. What is a strange habit of the seaman who Benny recognizes in the bar from the Navy?

5. What happens when Paola and Profane have sex?

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