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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 remember as she lies in her new bedroom?
(a) Her brother
(b) Her father
(c) Her mother
(d) Her lover

2. What word does the young wife use to describe her bedroom?
(a) Narrow
(b) Huge
(c) Spacious
(d) Quaint

3. What does the husband say the young wife must not play with?
(a) The staff
(b) Children
(c) Books
(d) Grown up toys

4. What opera had the young wife heard her husband's first wife sing?
(a) Isolde
(b) Phantom of the Opera
(c) Tristan
(d) Magic Flute

5. What race of people does the young wife compare her husband's eyes to?
(a) Pigmes
(b) Greek
(c) African
(d) Egyptian

Short Answer Questions

1. How many secrets does the husband say a man must have from his wife?

2. What does the young wife think when the husband slips off her jacket?

3. What brand of cigar does her husband light while watching her?

4. what does the young woman want to eat?

5. What spatters through the drawn blinds of the railway compartment?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the piano tuners background.

2. Why do you think the young wife is so quick to call the piano tuner her young lover?

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

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

5. Why do you think the husband tries to tempt his young wife with the small key?

6. In what way does the Marquis show shame at what he has done?

7. Why do you think Carter is so descriptive about the dead bodies?

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

9. In what ways is the young woman experienced?

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

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