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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 does Van see in Lucette's handbag?
(a) A red jewel box.
(b) A blue envelope.
(c) A yellow laquered mirror.
(d) A green handkerchief.

2. What was Van's first novel called?
(a) Letters from Terra.
(b) Les enfants.
(c) Ardors in Ardis.
(d) In the Three-Ninth Kingdom.

3. What type of fur coat does Ada wear?
(a) Fox.
(b) Mink.
(c) Rabbit.
(d) Sea otter.

4. Who does the woman on the boat mistake Van for?
(a) Vivian Vale.
(b) Avery Andrews.
(c) Drew Dawson.
(d) Sidney Star.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Van think about the relativistic idea of space-time?

2. What does Ada suggest that she and Van should do in a few days, after she finishes her business in Geneva?

3. How many copies of Van's book are sold in the first year?

4. How does Demon die?

5. To whom does Van send the flowers he buys while waiting for Ada?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Ada telephones Van, what does she tell him?

2. What does Ada's letter say she will do if Van doesn't allow her to come live with him?

3. What exercise in memory does Van attempt, which he also gives to his patients?

4. What does Van propose about the future in his treatise on time?

5. What metaphor does Van use for trying to understand time?

6. How does Van gain the post of Rattner Chair of Philosophy at University of Kingston?

7. How does Van respond to Ada's arrival?

8. How does Van characterize to Greg his relationship with Ada?

9. Why does Van think he is sterile?

10. What excuse does Van make up to have time alone with Ada?

(see the answer keys)

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