For what crime was the main character arrested before the beginning of the story?
The Briefcase Quick Quiz

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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
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publishing an underground newspaper
serving food to revolutionaries
fleeing his restaurant after it had caught fire
stealing a man's briefcase
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
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In lines 43–44, the professor's papers are described as “a thousand doves flailing against the walls of the alley.” What literary device is the author using?
metaphor
personification
simile
idiom
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
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In order to look more like the professor, the chef
gains weight.
shaves his head.
studies physics.
grows a beard.
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
After taking the professor's briefcase, the chef primarily supports himself by
playing violin on the street and asking for money.
publishing papers disproving common principles of physics.
writing to the professor's friends asking for help.
cooking for the widow who owns his apartment.
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
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Throughout the story, the chef works on “proving” that the sun moves around the earth. Why does he want to do this?
Taking on the identity of the professor has reawakened his interest in math and science, which his mother discouraged.
To avoid being recognized, he must keep his skills as a chef hidden, and the proof gives him something to do each day.
He needs to believe that truth is open to debate so that he can live with his own lies in pretending to be the professor.
If he can pass the exam he found in the briefcase, he thinks he may be able to teach the professor's physics class.
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
In lines 61–63, the narrator says that the chef “knew this: he had moved from his line of men, creating a vacuum—one that had sucked the good professor in to fill the void.” The author chose the words vacuum and void because they
create alliteration and a musical quality.
refer to concepts in the field of physics.
are words that a professional chef would use often.
have special meaning in the context of a revolution.
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What is the professor's widow's tone when she says, “Then he is dead” (lines 279–280)?
sorrowful
confused
frustrated
relieved
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