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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the wife stammer when when her husband kisses her?

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

3. What does the young wife compare her husband stripping her to?

4. How does the young wife say the crowd in the foyer parted?

5. Why can the young wife not socialize with the servants?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Why does the mother allow her young daughter to marry the Marquis when she has reservations about him?

6. Describe what an iron maiden is.

7. What do you think the girl means to the Marquis?

8. Describe the piano tuners background.

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

10. What do you think is the significance of the red ribbon?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The young wife often claims she is falling in love with the Marquis. Do you think people can fall in love that easily? What do you think is the meaning of true love? Why do you think the young wife is so prepared to fall in love?

Essay Topic 2

It is difficult to pinpoint the exact chronological setting of the novel. What year do you think it is set in? What clues are there to suggest it is from that year?

Essay Topic 3

The young wife discovers her husband's pornography in his library. What do you think are the negatives and positives of pornography in today's society? What do you think is Carter's view of pornography?

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