View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters Eight and Nine.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Rowley reassure Mary?
(a) He says that all the signs point to Karl running off.
(b) He says he will assume the blame if something happens.
(c) He is unable to offer any reassurances.
(d) He says no one would suspect a respectable, upper-class woman of being involved with a refugee.

2. Who awakens Mary the next day after Karl's death?
(a) She wakes on her own.
(b) Edgar.
(c) Nina.
(d) Rowley.

3. What does Edgar think has to happen for them to marry?
(a) She has to go to confession with a priest.
(b) He has to retire.
(c) They need counseling.
(d) She has to move and never return to Tuscany.

4. What does Karl's landlady know about Karl just before his disappearance?
(a) That his mother wrote him recently and asked him to come home.
(b) That he was unhappy in Italy.
(c) That he had money when he left Peppitos.
(d) That he was about to be married to a girl who is pregnant.

5. What does Mary extol?
(a) Matthew's final days.
(b) Edgar's virtues.
(c) Her father's virtues.
(d) Her father's architectural abilities.

Short Answer Questions

1. What makes it easier to hide Karl's death?

2. Why does Rowley ask for the gun?

3. What is Karl doing after Mary and he have sex?

4. What is Rowley's parting shot at Mary?

5. What does Edgar do after she tells him about Karl?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 331 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample