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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book One, Chapters 34-38.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What question of Van's does Ada not answer in Chapter 12?
(a) What the third Real Thing is.
(b) What she dreams about at night.
(c) What the difference is between town and country.
(d) What she feels about him.

2. Who is Van's first sexual experience with?
(a) A prostitute who works as a barmaid.
(b) A girl who works at the movie theater.
(c) A girl in his class at school.
(d) A prostitute and young helper at the corner shop.

3. What wakes Van his first morning at his aunt's home?
(a) Birds.
(b) The governess bringing tea.
(c) A bell.
(d) His aunt shaking him.

4. Over the thirteen years preceding Aqua's death, how much does Van calculate that he's spent with her?
(a) About eighteen months.
(b) About three weeks.
(c) About nine months.
(d) About two years.

5. At the table at Ardis Hall, who does Lucette sit between?
(a) Ada and the governess.
(b) Marina and the governess.
(c) Ada and Van.
(d) Van and Marina.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color are Ada's eyes?

2. Where do Ada and Van go, where Van compares Ada's body to the girlish body of the past?

3. Where was Van born?

4. In what language does Van write letters to his mother?

5. What was Van wearing the first time she glimpsed him, before they met?

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