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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What color are the curtains in the library?
(a) Red
(b) Purple
(c) Green
(d) Black

2. What kind of novel does the young wife say she wants to read?
(a) A victorian novel
(b) A funny novel
(c) A yellow paper novel
(d) A romantic novel

3. What does the young wife see on the opera singers throat?
(a) A gold crucifix
(b) The imprint of a stranglers fingers
(c) Deep scratches
(d) Drops of blood

4. How long has her husband's forefather's ruled the coast?
(a) Ten centuries
(b) Eight centuries
(c) Ten years
(d) Three centuries

5. How big does the young wife say the opal on her ring is?
(a) As big as a pin pong ball
(b) As big as a coffee bean
(c) As big as an eyeball
(d) As big as a pigeon's egg

6. What opera does the husband take the young wife to see?
(a) Cats
(b) The Magic Flute
(c) Tristan
(d) Faust

7. What is the skull crowned with?
(a) Thorns
(b) White roses
(c) Daisies
(d) Lillies

8. What spatters through the drawn blinds of the railway compartment?
(a) A starburst of lights
(b) A ray of the sun
(c) Blood
(d) A splinter of the moon

9. Where does her husband live?
(a) Calais
(b) Avignon
(c) Paris
(d) Brittany

10. What cryptic word is scrawled on the Tristan score?
(a) Soon
(b) After...
(c) Until...
(d) Yes

11. What opera had the young wife heard her husband's first wife sing?
(a) Tristan
(b) Isolde
(c) Phantom of the Opera
(d) Magic Flute

12. How does the young wife describe the keys her husband gives her?
(a) Huge, ancient things of black iron
(b) Like a jailers death warrant
(c) Tiny, newly cut things of steel
(d) Like the keys to the dampest, dirtiest rooms in France

13. What does the young wife remember as she lies in her new bedroom?
(a) Her lover
(b) Her brother
(c) Her father
(d) Her mother

14. How many spikes does the young wife say the countess is spiked by?
(a) One hundred
(b) A thousand
(c) Ten
(d) One

15. What piece does the wife find in her husband's scores?
(a) The Well-Tempered Clavier
(b) Golden Porsche
(c) Castles in the Sand
(d) The Magic Flute

Short Answer Questions

1. What won't the husband let his wife take off?

2. What does the young wife say her husband smells of?

3. What is marked on the paper napkin?

4. What does the young wife blame for the piano being out of tune?

5. What does the wife say is the source of her husband's Russian leather odor?

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