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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 a diva has sent her husband?
(a) The script of Hamlet
(b) A score of Tristan
(c) A love letter
(d) An unfinished novel

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

3. How did the mother pay for the young wife's music education?
(a) Sold her house
(b) Sold her jewellery
(c) Worked as a barmaid
(d) Worked the streets

4. What does the young wife decide to have for lunch?
(a) Turkey
(b) Fowl in cream
(c) Sausage and beans
(d) Avocado and shrimp

5. Where was the husband's last wife from?
(a) USA
(b) Romainia
(c) Czechoslovakia
(d) Bulgaria

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the young wife drink at dinner?

2. What does the maid ask the young wife in the study?

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

4. Who does the husband say his house keeper used to be?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How important is the piano tuner to the story?

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

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

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

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

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

7. How does the young girl's father cast a shadow across the whole story?

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

9. In what ways is the young woman experienced?

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

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