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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 the narrator tell the person that calls her?
(a) That the vagrant is in fact her employee.
(b) That the dog is hers.
(c) That the pool house heats the pool.
(d) That the homeless man owns the dog.

2. How does the housekeeper feel about the beating of Mr. Vercueil?
(a) She condemns it.
(b) She wishes to have done it herself.
(c) She is proud of it.
(d) She can understand it.

3. Why does the narrator refuse to give the man money for nothing?
(a) Because it fosters laziness.
(b) Because it is a bad precedent.
(c) Because he does not deserve it.
(d) Because she does not have cash.

4. What is the ethnicity of the narrator?
(a) White.
(b) Japanese.
(c) Black.
(d) Indian.

5. Where is the person the narrator finds at the start of Part One?
(a) Near her neighbor's house
(b) Near her pool.
(c) Near her garage.
(d) Near the grocery store.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do new contacts allow the narrator to experience?

2. Why does the narrator think the person that lives near her house will return?

3. What does the narrator offer to do for Florence?

4. What does the narrator give the man following his reaction to her comment regarding giving money for nothing?

5. How long does the man work before being paid by the narrator?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the homeless men decline after answering questions about his birthplace?

2. What does the narrator say about the boy and her teaching?

3. Who enters the house at the start of Part Two, pg. 56-86?

4. What happens when the narrator leaves to go shopping?

5. What happened to the narrator three years ago?

6. What does the narrator say to the homeless man about her family?

7. What does the homeless man do when the narrator brings him coffee?

8. Who does the narrator reveal she is speaking to according to Part One, pg. 3-15?

9. What does the narrator do when her car won't start according to Part One, pg. 15-33?

10. What does Vercueil explain to the narrator when they reach the boy's hospital room?

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