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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What name does Van have for frightening dreams?
(a) Van-visions.
(b) Terra-terrors.
(c) Dim-doom.
(d) End-edens.

2. What does Kim Beuharnais use to extort money from Ada?
(a) Photographs of her and Percy.
(b) Photography of her and Rank.
(c) Photographs of her and Van.
(d) Photographs of her and Lucette.

3. What does Van think about the relativistic idea of space-time?
(a) He embraces it.
(b) He rejects it.
(c) He thinks it is both true and false simultaneously.
(d) He thinks it is partially true.

4. What is done with Marina's body after she dies?
(a) It is cremated.
(b) It is buried next to her husband.
(c) It is donated to science.
(d) It is buried at Ardis Hall.

5. When Demon is sixty, how old is his Spanish lover?
(a) Seventeen.
(b) Twenty.
(c) Fourteen.
(d) Ten.

6. How long does Van spend in Cordula's Manhattan flat?
(a) Six months.
(b) A week.
(c) A month.
(d) A year.

7. What does Van invite Lucette to do?
(a) Come to Ardis Hall with him.
(b) Come stay at his Manhattan flat with him.
(c) Go out to dinner with him and spend the night.
(d) Travel with him to Paris and London.

8. How does Lucette say she feels when she runs into Van?
(a) Relieved and guilty.
(b) Annoyed but grateful.
(c) Happy and sad.
(d) Angry and bitter.

9. Who quips to Veen that he doesn't really need two women?
(a) Paulo.
(b) Aster.
(c) Margo.
(d) Flora.

10. What is Van's purpose in writing his book about time?
(a) To make money.
(b) To clarify his own understanding of time.
(c) To model with time the evolution of love.
(d) To make clear to the world the reality of time he's discovered.

11. To whom does Van send the flowers he buys while waiting for Ada?
(a) Ada.
(b) No one.
(c) A stranger.
(d) Dorothy.

12. What does Ada suggest that she and Van should do in a few days, after she finishes her business in Geneva?
(a) Go on a tour of England.
(b) Travel back to Ardis Hall.
(c) Go on a cruise to Greece.
(d) Go climbing in the Swiss Alps.

13. What does Van not bother to put on before heading out to meet Ada?
(a) Socks.
(b) A jacket.
(c) A hat.
(d) A tie.

14. What did Van think was in the secret drawer in the secretaire at Ardis Hall?
(a) Ada and Lucette's secret diaries.
(b) Ada and Lucette's grandfather's pistol.
(c) Ada and Lucette's great-uncle's cigars.
(d) Ada and Lucette's grandmother's love letters.

15. Who does Van write a letter to, to be sent in case he is killed in the duel?
(a) Lucette.
(b) Marina.
(c) Ada.
(d) His father.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Van's second for the duel?

2. What did the artillery officer played by Kim Eskimossoff do for comic effect?

3. What occurs as Van enters the hotel to meet Ada?

4. What two kinds of dreams does Van generally have?

5. What kind of fish does Lucette have when she and Van go to lunch?

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