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

2. Who asks the young wife if she loves her husband?
(a) Her father
(b) Her lover
(c) Her mother
(d) Her brother

3. Who does the young see in the iron maiden?
(a) Her husband
(b) The Romanian Countess
(c) The house keeper
(d) Her mother

4. What does the young wife call her bed?
(a) Comfortable
(b) A prison
(c) An autumn lake
(d) The midday bed of the rich

5. What month does the young wife say it is?
(a) November
(b) March
(c) October
(d) January

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does her husband live?

2. What does the young wife see on the opera singers throat?

3. What does the young wife decide to do to keep her husband away?

4. What do they say doomed the Romanian wife?

5. What does the maid squeeze the orange juice into?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do you think the Marquis stops what he is doing when the door is locked?

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

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

4. In what ways has the young wife grown up in a short space of time?

5. Describe what a catafalque is.

6. What is the girl's reaction to seeing her husband's pornography?

7. In what ways is the young woman naive?

8. Why does the mother allow her young daughter to marry the Marquis when she has reservations about him?

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

10. What do you know about Marquis's from other popular fiction?

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