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

2. What year was Eulalie at the Harem of the Grand Turk published?
(a) 1748
(b) 1034
(c) 1806
(d) 1901

3. What does the young wife say her husband smells of?
(a) Onions
(b) Old spices
(c) Camembert
(d) Russian leather

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many husbands does the young wife say she sees?

2. Who does the young wife see galloping towards the castle?

3. What type of piano has the husband left his young wife?

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

5. What does the young wife drink at dinner?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do you think is the significance of the opal?

2. Why do you think the husband tries to tempt his young wife with the small key?

3. Why is it significant that the Marquis smells of Russian leather?

4. How do you think the Marquis has gotten away for so long with the murders?

5. In what ways does the young wife romanticize her marriage to the Marquis?

6. What Fairy Tale conventions does Carter use?

7. Why do you think music is so important to the young wife?

8. Why do you think the young wife would want to marry the Marquis if she does not love him?

9. What do you think is the chronological setting of the novel?

10. Why does the husband looking at his wife 'like horse flesh' take her breath away?

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