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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the two kids who find Marina's pressed-flower book decide to do with it?
(a) Add more flowers to it.
(b) Destroy it.
(c) Hide it.
(d) Put it in a museum.

2. 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 nine months.
(c) About three weeks.
(d) About two years.

3. What is the "lolita" that Ada wears?
(a) A shirt.
(b) A hat.
(c) A skirt.
(d) A shawl.

4. What does Ada think of telling Lucette, to get her to leave Van alone?
(a) That Van is secretly a woman.
(b) That Van is her uterine brother.
(c) That Van detests her.
(d) That Van is gay.

5. What word does the person who left the note in Van's jacket use for "dupe"?
(a) Cozen.
(b) Befool.
(c) Chicane.
(d) Berne.

6. Where does Marina have breakfast?
(a) In bed.
(b) In the sitting room.
(c) In the kitchen.
(d) In the dining room.

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

8. When Van takes a walk after first arriving at Ardis Hall, who does he run into?
(a) His former governess and his cousin Lucette.
(b) Dark Veen.
(c) His two cousins, Ada and Lucette.
(d) His aunt and his father.

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

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

11. What is the Andalusian architect Alonso supposed to design?
(a) A swimming pool.
(b) A play room.
(c) A greenhouse.
(d) A school room.

12. Who is at home when Van first arrives at Ardis Hall?
(a) His father.
(b) His aunt.
(c) Only servants.
(d) Only animals.

13. Who does Van think is the most obvious choice that might have given him the note?
(a) The governess.
(b) Lucette.
(c) Blanche.
(d) Bout.

14. Who shows Van around his aunt's house?
(a) Marina.
(b) Ada.
(c) The governness.
(d) Lucette.

15. Why does Phillip Rack come upstairs, interrupting Ada and Van?
(a) To look for a restroom.
(b) To find a quiet place to lie down.
(c) To say goodbye to the family.
(d) To find a back way out of the house.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Van meets Ada in the forest fork, what is she wearing?

2. What is Marina, Demon, and Daniel's shared birthday?

3. What gift does Dan give Ada for her birthday?

4. What does Ana raise?

5. At the table at Ardis Hall, who does Lucette sit between?

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