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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. Who had the ring before her husband's mother and grandmother?
(a) Catherine de Medici
(b) Lucille de Palais
(c) Fanny Wouters
(d) Amelie Boulevard

2. Where does her husband live?
(a) Calais
(b) Avignon
(c) Brittany
(d) Paris

3. What room does the young wife decide to explore?
(a) The library
(b) The games room
(c) The room her husband has forbidden her from opening
(d) The kitchen

4. Where did the mother spend her childhood?
(a) Georgia
(b) Indo-China
(c) Japan
(d) Mexico

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the young wife say she will fling herself on the mercy of?

2. Why does the husband like his wife in her white muslin?

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

4. What word does the young wife use to describe her bedroom?

5. What month does the young wife say it is?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Describe what a catafalque is.

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

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

6. Why is it significant that the Marquis smells of Russian leather?

7. What do you know about Marquis's from other popular fiction?

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

9. Does Carter subvert the conventions of a fairy tale?

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

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