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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 do they say doomed the Romanian wife?

2. What piece does the wife find in her husband's scores?

3. What does the young wife call the piano tuner?

4. What did the Romanian wife work as in Montmartre?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does the husband looking at his wife 'like horse flesh' take her breath away?

3. How do you think the Marquis has gotten away for so long with the murders?

4. Do you think Carter represents the Marquis as unstable and crazy or just plain evil?

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

6. Describe the castle setting.

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

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

9. Do you think the Marquis is a conventional murderer in term of literature?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Take one of the characters and using examples from the book discuss the following:

1) Back ground and appearance.

2) Character motivation

3) Character conflict.

Essay Topic 2

What do you think the castle setting brings to the story? Take another setting and discuss what difference it would bring to the same story?

Essay Topic 3

Carter seems to give everything in the book color. What colors does she use? What tone does this give the novella? Choose two examples of Carter's use of color and discuss what meaning that color gives both the object and the story.

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