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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 Cordula doing when Van runs into her?
(a) Buying flowers.
(b) Talking to dogs.
(c) Carrying groceries.
(d) Coddling a baby.

2. How did Ada feel about acting tips from Marina?
(a) They were extremely beneficial.
(b) They were useless and idiotic.
(c) They were somewhat helpful but few.
(d) They were insulting and sarcastic.

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

4. Where does Van keep Ada's communications for fifty years?
(a) A safe in his library.
(b) Inside his pillow.
(c) A safe in a Swiss bank.
(d) Inside a book of flowers.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Van's purpose in writing his book about time?

2. Who does the woman on the boat mistake Van for?

3. Who does Van write a letter to, to be sent in case he is killed in the duel?

4. What is done with Marina's body after she dies?

5. Who chooses the girls at Villa Venus?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What plan does Lucette propose to Van?

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

4. What were the reviews of Van's first book like?

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

6. How does Demon discover that Van is living with Ada?

7. What is Cordula's conversation like?

8. What does Van plan to do in the duel?

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

10. How does Van respond to an invitation to dine at the Captain's table?

(see the answer keys)

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