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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 Mrs. Fisher contemplate at the beginning of Chapter 9?
(a) How she feels even older on the inside.
(b) How all her friends have died or abandoned her.
(c) How the years have past like a whisper.
(d) How the past has more value than the present.

2. What can Mrs. Wilkins see from her bedroom window?
(a) The ocean, mountains and the gardens.
(b) A statue of the Virgin Mary.
(c) A sprawling golf course.
(d) The nearby town waking up.

3. Where is Mrs. Wilkins at the beginning of the novel?
(a) At the library.
(b) At the supermarket.
(c) At the park.
(d) At a women's club.

4. Who interrupts Lady Caroline after Costanza does in Chapter 8?
(a) Marco.
(b) Leonardo.
(c) Rico.
(d) Domenico.

5. What is Lady Caroline surprised by in Chapter 9?
(a) Her own foresight.
(b) Mrs. Wilkins' sensitivity.
(c) Mrs. Fisher's lack of common sense.
(d) Mrs. Arbuthnot's closemindedness.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Mrs. Arbuthnot's husband make a living?

2. What had "faded to the dimness of a dream" by the time the women arrived in Italy in Chapter 4?

3. What does Lady Caroline's grace, beauty and nature allow her to be?

4. What does Lady Caroline believe of Mrs. Wilkins and Mrs. Arbuthnot when she first meets them?

5. What does Mrs. Wilkins suggest she and Mrs. Arbuthnot do in Chapter 1?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Mrs. Fisher ask for references in Chapter 3? How do Mrs. Wilkins and Mrs. Arbuthnot react to this?

2. Why does Mrs. Wilkins fetch Mrs. Arbuthnot after dressing and unpacking in Chapter 6?

3. How does Mrs. Arbuthnot spend most of her time as explained in Chapter 2?

4. According to Lady Caroline, what does her beauty allow her to be?

5. Why does Mrs. Arbuthnot come to the conclusion that both she and Mrs. Wilkins are miserable in Chapter 1?

6. What is shared in Chapter 2 in regards to Mrs. Arbuthnot's marriage?

7. What does Mrs. Wilkins admire and appreciate when she awakes in Chapter 6?

8. Why does Mrs. Arbuthnot believe that she and Mrs. Wilkins should be running things at San Salvatore?

9. Describe Mrs. Fisher's lunch scene in Chapter 9.

10. How do the two women go about finding other guests for their villa retreat? Why do they want to find more women?

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