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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 husband want her to do with the keys?
(a) Use them to beat him
(b) Give them to the house keeper
(c) Look after them
(d) Throw them into the sea

2. What type of piano has the husband left his young wife?
(a) A ballroom piano
(b) A Bechstein
(c) A grand piano
(d) A baby piano

3. What language does the housekeeper speak?
(a) English
(b) Gaellic
(c) Breton
(d) Flemish

4. What does the husband say while lighting his cigar?
(a) This will be fun
(b) Never
(c) Lovely
(d) Soon

5. Who does the young wife say used to tie red ribbons around their necks?
(a) Murderers
(b) The aristos
(c) Playwrights
(d) The libertines

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the young wife say lays in the center of the room?

2. Where does the mother shoot the husband?

3. Where does her husband live?

4. What is the name of the suite the young wife is given?

5. Where does the young wife say the little clock was made?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the marquis.

2. What is a libertine?

3. Why does the young wife show little surprise that her mother is riding across the beach to save her?

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

5. What is the mother's role in the story?

6. Is it significant that the young girl compares her mother to Medusa?

7. Why does the girl decide to enter the private room?

8. What do you think the differences are between a novella and a novel?

9. Describe what an iron maiden is.

10. What Fairy Tale conventions does Carter use?

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