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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Abstracts.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the husband hesitate over?
(a) Leaving his wife
(b) A key
(c) A joke
(d) Answering the phone

2. What does the young wife think her husband has left her for?
(a) A importunate mistress
(b) A month of debauchery
(c) Wall street
(d) To go skiing

3. What word does the young wife use to describe her bedroom?
(a) Quaint
(b) Spacious
(c) Huge
(d) Narrow

4. What language does the housekeeper speak?
(a) Flemish
(b) Gaellic
(c) Breton
(d) English

5. What does the young wife say glazes the windows?
(a) A thick darkness
(b) A starry sky
(c) Drops of water
(d) The moon light

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the husband say when his wife complains that it is broad daylight?

2. What does the young wife say is bad about the passage?

3. How did her husband's last wife die?

4. What brand of cigar does her husband light while watching her?

5. What thought calms the young wife?

(see the answer key)

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