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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 flashes in the light?
(a) The iron maiden
(b) A severed hand
(c) Her husbands face
(d) The fire opal

2. What key does the husband ask his wife not to use?
(a) None of them
(b) The wine cellar key
(c) The one to his desk
(d) The last little one

3. What does the young wife say when the mother ask if she is sure she loves him?
(a) As much as the next man and the ones before
(b) I don't know
(c) I'm sure I want to marry him.
(d) Love is for idiots

4. For what reason does the young wife say she is crying?
(a) She does not like her husband
(b) She missed Paris
(c) She misses her mother
(d) She has gold taps

5. What does the young wife call the piano tuner?
(a) Honey
(b) Blind eye
(c) Mr Grey
(d) My lover

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the wife say is the source of her husband's Russian leather odor?

2. How long does the young wife practice for?

3. Why does the young wife think the maid is discourteous?

4. Who does the young see in the iron maiden?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why do you think Carter focuses so much on the young girl's body?

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

4. The Marquis drives to the house in a black car. How do such obvious metaphors work in the story?

5. Do you think the Marquis is a conventional murderer in term of literature?

6. In what way does the marquis lie about the appearance of the corridor that leads to his secret room?

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

8. In what ways is the young woman naive?

9. What is a Marquis?

10. Why do you think the Marquis takes the young girl to see Tristan?

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