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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 do the moment the house keeper leaves the room?
(a) Cries
(b) Claps
(c) Kicks her piano
(d) Giggles
2. Where do the couple hold their wedding?
(a) The Eiffel Tower
(b) Celia Palais
(c) The Mairie
(d) The Monet Hall
3. What does the husband say the English call his private room?
(a) A den
(b) A castle
(c) A public house
(d) An inn
4. What is the only thing the young wife says she can hear?
(a) The murmuring of waves
(b) The flap of bat wings
(c) The burning of the candles
(d) The whistle of a breeze
5. What does the young wife say is reflected in the mirrors?
(a) Herself
(b) Red roses
(c) White lillies
(d) The house wife
Short Answer Questions
1. What does the young wife compare the room to?
2. Who is on the telephone?
3. What does the young wife say her husband smells of?
4. Who does the husband say he has taken onto his staff?
5. What thought calms the young wife?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does the Marquis seduce the young wife?
2. Is it significant that the young girl compares her mother to Medusa?
3. In what ways does the young wife romanticize her marriage to the Marquis?
4. How is it significant that the piano tuner is blind?
5. Why does the girl decide to enter the private room?
6. What do you think the differences are between a novella and a novel?
7. Carter references a lot of artists and books in the novella. What meaning do they bring to the story?
8. Why do you think Carter focuses so much on the young girl's body?
9. What is a Marquis?
10. Why do you think the young wife does not tell anyone what happened, but instead accepts the gossip?
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