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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the husband want her to do with the keys?
(a) Throw them into the sea
(b) Use them to beat him
(c) Give them to the house keeper
(d) Look after them

2. What piece does the wife find in her husband's scores?
(a) The Well-Tempered Clavier
(b) Golden Porsche
(c) Castles in the Sand
(d) The Magic Flute

3. What key does the husband ask his wife not to use?
(a) The wine cellar key
(b) The last little one
(c) The one to his desk
(d) None of them

4. What does the postcard say it is a typical scene of?
(a) Riga
(b) Transylvania
(c) Yorkshire
(d) Brno

5. Who does the young wife see galloping towards the castle?
(a) Her mother
(b) Death
(c) Her brother
(d) Her husband

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the husband say while lighting his cigar?

2. Why could the young wife not sleep?

3. What is the skull crowned with?

4. What does the young wife compare the box her wedding dress came to?

5. What does the young wife call the piano tuner?

Short Essay Questions

1. What reason do you think the young wife cries to her mother?

2. What is a Marquis?

3. Why do you think the Marquis takes the young girl to see Tristan?

4. Why do you think the young wife is so quick to call the piano tuner her young lover?

5. In what way does the marquis lie about the appearance of the corridor that leads to his secret room?

6. Describe the marquis.

7. Why is it significant that the Marquis smells of Russian leather?

8. In what way is Bloody Chamber a feminist story?

9. How do you think the Marquis has gotten away for so long with the murders?

10. Why do you think the young wife would want to marry the Marquis if she does not love him?

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