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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 say she needs to continue her music studies?
(a) A teacher
(b) A house away from the sea
(c) A new piano
(d) A resident piano tuner

2. What does the young lady want the servants to leave her in her music room?
(a) Strawberries and cream
(b) A christmas dinner
(c) A flask of coffee and sandwiches
(d) A box of chocolates

3. 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

4. How did her husband's last wife die?
(a) Died giving birth
(b) Committed suicide
(c) Flu
(d) A boating accident

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the young wife drink at dinner?

2. In what part of the opera made the young wife's heart ache?

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

4. What word is marked on the file the young wife finds in her husband's desk?

5. What does the young wife decide the house needs?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the Marquis seduce the young wife?

2. Why do you think the young wife does not tell anyone what happened, but instead accepts the gossip?

3. Describe what a catafalque is.

4. Why do you think the story constantly harks back to past times?

5. What reason do you think the young wife cries to her mother?

6. Describe the castle setting.

7. Does Carter subvert the conventions of a fairy tale?

8. Do you think Carter represents the Marquis as unstable and crazy or just plain evil?

9. Why do you think the piano is the only character Carter gives a name to?

10. Why do you think Carter does not use names for the main characters?

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