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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 87-139.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the narrator, how many married women have affairs?
(a) All of them.
(b) A quarter of them.
(c) Half of them.
(d) Less than 10 percent of them.

2. What actually causes Elgin to show emotion?
(a) The death of his father.
(b) Louise's diagnosis.
(c) Louise's affair.
(d) The narrator's love for Louise.

3. Which of the following does the narrator most likely feel about infidelity?
(a) Infidelity is immoral.
(b) Infidelity is only okay for the narrator and his or her lovers.
(c) Infidelity makes the narrator angry but the narrator enjoys being devious.
(d) Infidelity is acceptable.

4. Who does Jacqueline attack?
(a) Louise.
(b) Elgin.
(c) The narrator.
(d) Bathsheba.

5. According to Louise, who has said "I love you" to many people?
(a) Elgin.
(b) Jacqueline.
(c) The narrator.
(d) Louise.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Elgin feel about Louise finding sexual fulfillment elsewhere?

2. Which of the following describes the time Louise and the narrator lived together?

3. Which of the following types of literary devices are present in the novel?

4. Which of the following literary devices most accurately describes Jacqueline's anger?

5. According to the narrator, why do married women have affairs?

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