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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Van doing while he stays at Cordula's?
(a) Composing songs.
(b) Beginning to write his first book.
(c) Beginning to learn to paint.
(d) Learning to master chess.

2. Who does Van challenge to a duel?
(a) A waiter who addresses him insolently at dinner.
(b) A belhop who drops his luggage at the hotel.
(c) A duke who steps on his toes on the train.
(d) A captain he accidentally bumps into leaving the train.

3. Does Ada allow Van to send his apologetic letter to Lucette?
(a) No, she rips it up and throws it away.
(b) Yes, but reluctantly and with a critical postscript.
(c) No, but he secretly sends it anyway.
(d) Yes, she feels the same as he does.

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

5. Where is Lucette staying in New York?
(a) Van's apartment.
(b) The Winster Hotel for Young Ladies.
(c) The Savoy Hotel.
(d) A rented brownstone.

6. What does the newspaper Van's father is reading at the airport say?
(a) Romania Reconsiders.
(b) Dominica Dominates.
(c) Cyprus Compromises.
(d) Crimea Capitulates.

7. 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 make clear to the world the reality of time he's discovered.
(d) To model with time the evolution of love.

8. Where does Van spend his free time while he is staying at Cordula's?
(a) The art museum.
(b) The local park.
(c) The university.
(d) The public library.

9. What are the "three C's" Lucette says were talked about at Ada's house?
(a) Cactuses, cattle, and cooking.
(b) Children, country, and complaints.
(c) Cubism, communism, and cabaret.
(d) Comedy, Coleridge, and cabbage.

10. What kind of fish does Lucette have when she and Van go to lunch?
(a) Cod.
(b) Trout.
(c) Salmon.
(d) Whitefish.

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

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

13. What part does Ada play in the film "The Young and the Doomed"?
(a) A barmaid.
(b) A governess.
(c) A murdering widow.
(d) A pair of twins.

14. What is Van's earliest memory?
(a) The smell of bacon and coffee.
(b) A chunk of plaster falling into his cradle.
(c) His father pacing back and forth before his crib.
(d) A dog running off with his toy.

15. How many copies of Van's book are sold in the first year?
(a) Six.
(b) Sixty.
(c) Six hundred.
(d) Six thousand.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Demon not want to turn Van over to the authorities for incest?

2. When Demon is sixty, how old is his Spanish lover?

3. Who is visiting Villa Venus, causing it to be overrun with police?

4. What does Van insist on doing to avoid going to bed the first night on the cruise?

5. What does Van see in Lucette's handbag?

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