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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Percy de Prey ask Van to meet him?
(a) At the islet in Lake Ladore.
(b) At the stables behind Ardis Hall.
(c) At the creek in the woods.
(d) At Maidenhair Road and Tourbiure Lane.

2. 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 gay.
(c) That Van detests her.
(d) That Van is her uterine brother.

3. What does Baron d'Onsky try to buy from Demon?
(a) A small sculpture of an apple.
(b) A deck of risque playing cards.
(c) A picture of a nude woman.
(d) An engraved cigarette case.

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. What does Marina suspect might be Van's reason for leaving?
(a) He is eloping with Blanche.
(b) He is angry at something she said.
(c) His father is ill.
(d) He has left a girlfriend in London.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word does the person who left the note in Van's jacket use for "dupe"?

2. What causes both Van and Ada to rush back to the house?

3. What is the "eremitic reality or collective dream" Van discusses in his dissertation called?

4. What does Van's father offer to try to buy for him?

5. Why does Ada want to give Lucette a bath?

Short Essay Questions

1. What bad habit does Ana stop on her twelfth birthday?

2. How does Marina describe Jews to her daughter?

3. How does Van feel about Cordula?

4. What did Ada do when Dr. Krolik died?

5. Describe the encounter between Blanche and Van.

6. Where and in what circumstances do Van and Ada first have sex?

7. What does Ada say lions do when they eat a person?

8. How doe Van describe Ada's way of talking when explaining something funny?

9. What becomes of Ada's old governess?

10. What are the rules of marriage among relatives that Van and Ada discuss?

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