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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Elio write on a note to Oliver after making love with Marzia?
(a) "Please don't avoid me."
(b) "Can't stand the silence. I need to speak to you."
(c) "Your silence is killing me."
(d) "I'd sooner die than know you hate me."

2. In Part 2, while Elio waits to see Oliver, what do he and Marzia do?
(a) Walk through B.
(b) Play tennis.
(c) Go swimming.
(d) Walk on the beach.

3. Where do Oliver and Elio plan to go together at the end of Part 2?
(a) Milan.
(b) Rome.
(c) Sicily.
(d) Naples.

4. In Part 3, what do Oliver and Elio eat before taking showers?
(a) Apricots.
(b) Dates.
(c) Apples.
(d) Figs.

5. In Part 3, where does Oliver say he went to college?
(a) MIT.
(b) Harvard.
(c) Brown.
(d) Yale.

6. In Part 2, what color shirts do the men who speak terrible Italian wear?
(a) Pink.
(b) Purple.
(c) White.
(d) Blue.

7. In Part 3, how many cars are there to take people to dinner?
(a) 5.
(b) 11.
(c) 4.
(d) 8.

8. In Part 3, what is Se l'amore based on?
(a) Season in Paris teaching Machiavelli.
(b) Season in Thailand teaching Dante.
(c) Love of live.
(d) Relationship with the poet's wife.

9. In Part 2, when Oliver responds to Elio's note, when does he tell Elio to meet him?
(a) Midnight.
(b) 8 p.m.
(c) Dusk.
(d) 9 p.m.

10. In Part 3, by the time everyone ends up at a bar, how many of them are there?
(a) 20.
(b) 10.
(c) 25.
(d) 15.

11. In Part 2, where does Elio remember buying the nightlight that is in Oliver's room?
(a) London.
(b) Naples.
(c) Paris.
(d) Oxford.

12. In Part 3, what can Oliver and Elio see from one of the bedrooms at their hotel?
(a) Cars and people.
(b) Domes of churches.
(c) Vatican.
(d) The Coliseum.

13. In Part 2, a couple days after Elio spends the night in Oliver's room, what does Elio do at breakfast?
(a) Fixes Oliver cereal.
(b) Shares a pastry with Oliver.
(c) Cuts the top off Oliver's egg.
(d) Pours juice for Oliver.

14. In Part 2, what does Elio remember Anchise doing when he got hurt?
(a) Bind a cut hand.
(b) Sit with him when he had a fever.
(c) Suck and spit out scorpion venon.
(d) Bind a cut foot.

15. What day of the week do Oliver and Elio arrive at the Stazione Termini?
(a) Saturday.
(b) Friday.
(c) Thursday.
(d) Wednesday.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part 3, why is the bartender gone?

2. In Part 3, how long ago does Elio remember a young man on a bicycle coming on to him?

3. In Part 2, where will Oliver be going when he returns to the United States?

4. What is the nickname for the place where Marzia and Elio make love in Part 2?

5. In Part 2, the evening after Elio spends the night in Oliver's room, where does Elio find Oliver?

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