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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. What is Ada's hair like?
(a) Long, curled, and dark.
(b) Long, straight, and dark.
(c) Short, blonde, and curled.
(d) Short, blonde, and straight.

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

3. What Russian writer is quoted in the beginning of the novel?
(a) Chekhov.
(b) Tolstoy.
(c) Pushkin.
(d) Dostoyevski.

4. When writing her husband from sanatoriums, Aqua sometimes used a Russian term meaning what?
(a) Rays of hope.
(b) Sickening sadness.
(c) Heart rending sounds.
(d) Bursting memories.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the "lolita" that Ada wears?

2. Who is the chaperone when Van visits Ada at school?

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

4. Why does Phillip Rack come upstairs, interrupting Ada and Van?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Blanche look like as she is ready to leave?

2. What do Demon think of Marina's career as an actress?

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

4. How does Aqua kill herself?

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

6. What reason does Van give Marina for leaving?

7. How does Van first see Ada?

8. How does Ada act when she tells stories at the table?

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

10. What does Van do, when Ada suggests he spank Lucette?

(see the answer keys)

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