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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 woman say is her salvation?
(a) Reliving her time spent with the man.
(b) Her baby.
(c) Imagining the man imagining her.
(d) Imaging the man fighting valiantly.

2. One of the articles in chapter 12 details Richard and Iris meeting what prestigious individuals?
(a) The King and Queen of England.
(b) The Prime Minister of Canada.
(c) The President of the United States.
(d) The King and Queen of Spain.

3. How does the woman react when the man asks her to leave her husband?
(a) She refuses because she doesn't love him.
(b) She agrees and accompanies him overseas.
(c) She refuses because she has no way to earn money.
(d) She agrees and waits behind for him to come back from Europe.

4. Who gets custody of Sabrina after Aimee dies?
(a) Iris.
(b) Winifred.
(c) Richard.
(d) Laura.

5. Who does Aimee think are her real parents?
(a) Laura and the man from 'The Blind Assassin'.
(b) Richard and Winifred.
(c) Iris and the man from 'The Blind Assassin'.
(d) Richard and Laura.

Short Answer Questions

1. Richard Griffen warns of what in Spain?

2. How does Winifred react when Laura tells her that love, not marriage, is important?

3. What do the woman and the man do after the woman meets him when he briefly returns from the war?

4. What plagues the adult Aimee?

5. What does the woman dream about?

Short Essay Questions

1. In chapter 10, the woman goes and buys a copy of the man's story about the Lizard Men of Xenor. How does the printed story differ from the story the man has told the woman?

2. Why is Laura kicked out of her school?

3. Why do you think Iris has 'The Blind Assassin' published?

4. According to the article at the beginning of chapter 12, what are Richard's views about Germany?

5. According to clues in chapter 10, who do you think is the woman's equivalent in Iris's memoir and why?

6. In chapter 13 what is the state of Iris and Richard's marriage?

7. What message does Laura leave for Iris in her school notebooks?

8. In chapter 13, what revelation of Iris's sends Laura over the edge?

9. What does Laura say in chapter 11 that upsets Winifred?

10. How does the man and woman's story about the blind assassin and the tongueless girl end?

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