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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 Isabelle trust Stephen to do?
(a) Not break Lisette's heart.
(b) Make the decision about their life.
(c) Return to England with no more contact.
(d) Guide her husband's business profitably.

2. Who is Captain Gray's commanding officer?
(a) Colonel Cambridge.
(b) Colonel Edwards.
(c) Colonel Barclay.
(d) Colonel Ellison.

3. What does the phrase, "he was put over the wall" mean?
(a) He went A.W.O.L.
(b) He was captured.
(c) He is in the hospital.
(d) He is dead.

4. What does Stephen find out about Weir?
(a) He is still a virgin.
(b) He is divorced.
(c) He went to Harvard.
(d) He comes from a wealthy family.

5. Mme. Azaire can be described as __________________.
(a) Ugly.
(b) Beautiful.
(c) Serene.
(d) Homely.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Stephen talk about when Weir asks him to talk about anything other than the war?

2. What is Jack's last name?

3. Why did Weir join the army?

4. Why can Isabelle not stop sleeping with Azaire?

5. Stephen is _________________ years younger than Isabelle.

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Jack feel about the letter he receives from his wife, Margaret?

2. How did Stephen channel the loss of Isabelle into his behavior in the war?

3. What are some things that could account for the contentious nature between Azaire and Isabelle?

4. How does Azaire learn that Isabelle is running away with Stephen?

5. What is Stephen's nighttime ritual which will become important later in the book?

6. What does Isabelle know her life will be when Stephen returns to England?

7. Why does Stephen not want an office job?

8. Why does the prostitute forgive Stephen for cutting her leg?

9. What does Stephen discover about Isabelle when he follows her to Lucien Lebrun's house one day?

10. What does Jack's letter from his wife foreshadow?

(see the answer keys)

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