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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the young wife miss?
(a) Her lover in Paris
(b) Her mother
(c) Her husband's caresses
(d) Her father loving smile

2. What color hair does the young wife have?
(a) Dark brown
(b) Black
(c) Mouse colored
(d) Blonde

3. In what country does the story take place?
(a) Switzerland
(b) Germany
(c) Great Britain
(d) France

4. Who does the young wife telephone?
(a) Her mother
(b) Her lover
(c) Her best friend
(d) Her husband

5. What does the young wife do the moment the house keeper leaves the room?
(a) Claps
(b) Cries
(c) Giggles
(d) Kicks her piano

6. What does the young wife say drove her on?
(a) Her father's love
(b) Her mother's spirit
(c) Excitement
(d) Curiousity

7. What does the young wife say is bad about the passage?
(a) It is dusty and full of cobwebs
(b) It is ill lit
(c) It is full of rats
(d) It smells of death

8. What type of desk does the husband have in his study?
(a) Mahogany
(b) Pine
(c) Elm
(d) Oak

9. What does the husband say is the greatest part of pleasure?
(a) Anticipation
(b) The act it self
(c) The climax
(d) The after glow

10. What color does the wife's opal go in the flames?
(a) Green
(b) Red
(c) Blue
(d) Orange

11. What city does the young wife come from?
(a) Calais
(b) Toulouses
(c) Paris
(d) Marseille

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

13. Who is on the telephone?
(a) Her husband's mistress
(b) The husband's agent from New York
(c) The wife's mother
(d) A prank caller

14. What is the piano tuners real name?
(a) Jean-Yves
(b) Davide
(c) Jean Claude
(d) Wurzel

15. Where does the young wife find a photograph of her husband's last wife?
(a) A society magazine
(b) In her husband's wallet
(c) On the back of a milk carton
(d) A newspaper

Short Answer Questions

1. Why could the young wife not sleep?

2. Who does the young wife call in to thank?

3. What spatters through the drawn blinds of the railway compartment?

4. What opera does the husband take the young wife to see?

5. What month does the young wife say it is?

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