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The Door Quiz

Magda Szabo

This Study Guide consists of approximately 80 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of The Door.

The Door by Magda Szabo

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+Chapters Summary and Analysis

The Door - The Contract

Christ’s Brothers and Sisters - Viola

Friends and Neighbors - The Murano Mirror

Junk Clearance - Polett

Politics - Nádori-Csabadul

Christmas Surprise - Without Her Headscarf

The Ceremony - Amnesia

Inheritance - The Door

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The Door Quiz

Magda Szabo

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Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

Why did the Lieutenant Colonel yell at the narrator after he learned what happened to Emerence? (from The Ceremony - Amnesia)

The narrator was considering not going as a delegate to the international peace conference.

No one had tried to get in touch with him.

The narrator had not stayed with Emerence during the entire episode.

All of the cats were gone.

2.

Why did the narrator sense that Emerence did not want Viola to live with her? (from Friends and Neighbors - The Murano Mirror)

Emerence thought the dog would be too much trouble.

Emerence did not think the dog would get along with her cat.

Emerence was afraid of the dog.

Emerence was afraid she would die and leave the dog alone.

3.

Why did Emerence pretend that Éva was her own daughter? (from Politics - Nádori-Csabadul)

To keep the child from an abusive father.

To fulfill a promise to the child's birth mother.

To keep the child from going to a foster home.

To keep the child from being killed in the holocaust.

4.

Why does Emerence believe that her grandfather neglected the graves of Emerence's father, mother, and twin siblings? (from Politics - Nádori-Csabadul)

To make the cemetery live up to its agreement to care for the graves..

To show that nature eventually reclaims everyone.

To keep from spending money on dead people.

To punish Emerence.

5.

According to the chapter "Politics," why was Emerence so distrustful of men? (from Politics - Nádori-Csabadul)

Her father had abandoned her.

The barber had stolen from her.

Her father had abused her mother.

Her father was an alcoholic.

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