The tower By Reza Gokal

Para 1. How many steps in the Tower of Sacrifice? 470 STEPS

Who built it and when? 1535: By Niccolo Di Ferramano

What happened in 1549? The surrounding village was completely

destroyed.

Para 3. How long till it is dark and how long will it take for Caroline to get
home? An hour of daylight it would take her 35 minutes. 

Pg 280

Para 1. How long have Caroline and Neville been married? 3 months 

How long has Neville lived in Florence? 2 years 

Para 2. Where does Neville work? In the British council 

Para 7. What was the name of the girl in the portrait and when did she die?
She was 18 years old and died in the year when the village was destroyed
and her name was giovanna.

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Para 3. Who is the unknown gentleman in the portrait? Niccolo di

Ferramano 

Why isn’t his name mentioned? There was a scandal about him 

What did the count answer when asked about the girl? She was lost or she
was damned 

Para 4. What is Neville’s theory about Niccolo? That he was involved in

black magic 
Para 5. What resemblance does Neville see? He sees him resemble with
Caroline 

Para 7. What is odd about the land surrounding the tower? It was not
cultivated 

Para 8. What shocked Caroline? A voice inside of her 

Para 10. What could she see at the top of the tower? Some kind of narrow
platform encircling it 

Pg 282

Para 1. Where in the tower was the staircase located? In an empty room 

Para 3. What happened after the 41st step? She could see the evening sky 

Para 4. What was strange about the slit windows? They were too high for
anyone to see through them 

Para 6. Why did she shiver? She couldn’t feel the railing anymore 

Para 8. What happened at the 375th step? The railing crumbled away 

Paras 10, 11, 12, 13. What was there after the 470 th step? The steps had
stopped and there was nothing but a broken railing ahead 

Pg 283

Para 1. What does she feel compelled to do? She feel compelled to throw
herself from the sloping platform 

Para 4. What does the voice in her head say and why? The voice told her it
was easier to just fall because she would not be able to climb down in this
dark room and with no railing 

Para 7. In what position is she going down? She was crawling down 

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 What is shocking about the last para? It seems as if she’s been going
more down then she should have as she came up four hundred and
seventy steps but was now counting five hundred and four, this
clearly shows the strange nature of the steps as it was supposed to
have ended