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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are Mantissa, Cesare, and the Gaucho about to do when Mantissa has a change of heart, forcing them all to flee?
(a) Kidnap V.
(b) Steal the painting of the Birth of Venus.
(c) Shoot the rioters.
(d) Break into the Venezuelan embassy.

2. When Profane stays at Pig's apartment, what does he wake up to see one night?
(a) An orgy.
(b) A suicide.
(c) A barbecue.
(d) Pig sitting on his motorcycle in the alley, racing the engine.

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

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

5. What happens when Paola and Profane have sex?
(a) They cannot do it.
(b) Profane starts crying.
(c) Paola's husband arrives and kicks them out.
(d) They are interrupted by Teflon and his camera.

6. What apparently had Paola done by marrying Pappy Hod?
(a) Cheat on her husband.
(b) Fall in love.
(c) Come to America.
(d) Overcome her alcoholism.

7. Who is Sir Alistair Wren?
(a) The British Prime Minister.
(b) A knighted singer.
(c) A member of English Parliament and father of Victoria Wren.
(d) A British spy.

8. What is the name of the barmaid who brings Benny Profane a drink at the tavern in Virginia?
(a) Sara.
(b) Ploy.
(c) Maria.
(d) Beatrice.

9. Who is Rachel Owlglass?
(a) A supermodel.
(b) A tall barmaid.
(c) Rachel was a society girl from Long Island who Profane met in the Catskills.
(d) Benny's mother.

10. What is the name of Angel's friend who works with him?
(a) Fina.
(b) Geronimo.
(c) Tolito.
(d) Pablo.

11. Who does Waldetar see crying?
(a) Victoria Wren.
(b) Profane.
(c) Mildred Wren.
(d) Hugo.

12. Who is Porpentine?
(a) A fake prisoner.
(b) One of the Englishmen at the cafe who is a guest at the consulate party.
(c) A lover of Victoria Wren.
(d) A British spy.

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

14. Who did Stencil meet that talked to him about the sewers and the rat Veronica?
(a) Benny.
(b) Paola.
(c) V.
(d) Zeitsuss.

15. By his apparent lack of interest in other women, what does Profane reveal?
(a) His solitary nature.
(b) His homosexuality.
(c) His devotion to Rachel.
(d) His alcoholism.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Benny drink with that gets attracted to him in Chapter 6?

2. Who does Benny meet on the subway in New York?

3. What is the name of the tavern that Benny Profane enters in Norfolk, Virginia on Christmas Eve, 1955?

4. What does the dentist show Stencil?

5. Who is Alice?

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