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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. Which of the following is NOT a source of information for the narrator regarding his stories of Philip and Anne-Marie?
(a) He asks Philip's father.
(b) He imagines them.
(c) He asks Anne-Marie.
(d) He asks Philip.

2. How does Anne-Marie feel about Philip in Chapter 11?
(a) She is thinking about leaving him.
(b) She is starting to have doubts about it.
(c) She has broken up with him.
(d) She is madly in love.

3. What is the main reason Philip spends time with Anne-Marie.
(a) Spiritual.
(b) Conversation.
(c) Business.
(d) Sex.

4. Where will the narrator be staying while in Autun?
(a) A Holiday Inn.
(b) A bed and breakfast.
(c) A house owned by friends.
(d) A hostel.

5. Who is the young French girl drinking with the black American soldiers?
(a) Jeanne Marie.
(b) Louise.
(c) Jeanette.
(d) Anne-Marie.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the nature of the narrator's relationship with Claude?

2. What is Philip's biggest dread regarding Anne-Marie?

3. What is the surname of Billy's friends with whom the narrator and Philip have dinner?

4. Which of the following is something that is NOT in the control of a photographer?

5. How did Philip's mother die when he was a boy?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe a typical day for the narrator in Autun.

2. Who are the Jobses and why do the narrator and Philip spend time with them?

3. Is the narrator's trip to Autun real or imagined?

4. What does the narrator learn about Philip and about himself as he gets to know him?

5. What is at the core of Philip attraction to Anne-Marie?

6. What is the state of Billy and Cristina's marriage when the narrator returns to Paris to visit them?

7. How can the narrator be characterized as observant?

8. What is the point of view of the novel?

9. How does the narrator reconnect with Philip Dean?

10. Even though he is primarily an observer, what other elements of the narrator's psyche enter into the development of his stories?

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