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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book I, Chapters 14-20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What causes both Van and Ada to rush back to the house?
(a) They are angry and want to each be alone.
(b) They are afraid they've left their diaries out.
(c) Rain has started to pour down.
(d) They've forgotten a visitor is arriving.

2. What article does Uncle Dan try to read?
(a) An article in Dutch about oystering.
(b) An article in Portuguese about sunflowers.
(c) An article in Greek about tennis.
(d) An article in Africaans about spice farming.

3. What gymnastic trick does Van help Lucette do?
(a) Do a somersault.
(b) Balance-walk on a tree branch.
(c) Walk on her hands.
(d) Do a cartwheel.

4. Where is Van and Ada's first sexual encounter?
(a) In a cave.
(b) In Van's room.
(c) In a pond.
(d) In an apple tree.

5. Who made up the games that Ana describes in Chapter 8?
(a) Lucette.
(b) Ana.
(c) The governess.
(d) Van.

Short Answer Questions

1. When writing her husband from sanatoriums, Aqua sometimes used a Russian term meaning what?

2. What Russian writer is quoted in the beginning of the novel?

3. What does Ada like to paint pictures of from a book?

4. Over the thirteen years preceding Aqua's death, how much does Van calculate that he's spent with her?

5. Who shows Van around his aunt's house?

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