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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what time does the novel begin?
(a) 1970s.
(b) 1890s.
(c) 1830s.
(d) 1930s.

2. What does Eddie tell Portia is important to him?
(a) That she stay sweet and innocent.
(b) That she always understand him.
(c) That she learn the ways of the world.
(d) That she be faithful to him.

3. Who is to be Portia's date for Daphne's dance party?
(a) Eddie.
(b) Cecil.
(c) Dickie.
(d) Bursely.

4. What does Matchett find when she tries to fluff Portia's pillow?
(a) Eddie's letter to Portia.
(b) Portia's diary.
(c) Portia's letter to Major Brutt.
(d) Anna's necklace that Portia stole.

5. Where does Daphne work?
(a) In a nursery.
(b) In a library.
(c) In a school.
(d) In a doctor's office.

6. What does Thomas think of Anna's idea that Portia is unnerving when she stares at them?
(a) Thomas agrees with Anna.
(b) Portia should be more considerate.
(c) Thomas doesn't know that Anna feels this way.
(d) Anna is being neurotic.

7. What does Anna suggest that she, Thomas, and Portia should do together?
(a) Play a board game.
(b) See a movie.
(c) Go for a drive.
(d) Go for a walk.

8. Where will Portia be staying while Anna and Thomas are away?
(a) In a big city.
(b) On the coast.
(c) At home, with Matchett.
(d) In the countryside.

9. How does Thomas feel about Anna's idea for an activity?
(a) He wants to go with Anna, and not let Portia come.
(b) He just wants to stay at home.
(c) He wants to be able to choose the activity.
(d) He wants to do something else.

10. What relation is Anna to Thomas?
(a) Mother.
(b) Wife.
(c) Cousin.
(d) Sister.

11. Who introduced Anna and Eddie?
(a) Denis.
(b) Thomas.
(c) Robert Pidgeon.
(d) Major Brutt.

12. What is the reason Thomas gives Anna for why he thinks Portia is upset in part 1, chapter 2?
(a) Thomas said something hurtful to Portia.
(b) Portia is beginning her menstrual cycle.
(c) Portia is missing her mother.
(d) He gives no reason.

13. How does Major Brutt feel about Anna's marriage to Thomas?
(a) He is glad that Anna married Thomas, and got away from Robert.
(b) He is glad that Anna married Thomas, because she is financially secure with him.
(c) It is shocking to him because he can only remember her as a lover to Robert Pidgeon.
(d) He does not approve, because he dislikes Thomas.

14. What does Thomas wonder about Portia and Eddie?
(a) If he should disallow Portia from seeing Eddie.
(b) What Matchett will think.
(c) What Anna will think.
(d) If he should have a talk with Eddie.

15. What is Portia's last memory of her mother?
(a) Driving her mother to the train station.
(b) Driving her mother to the clinic.
(c) Portia doesn't remember her mother at all.
(d) Waving goodbye to her mother from the deck of a boat.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Portia?

2. What did Eddie to do Anna that upset her?

3. To what did Eddie limit his communication with Anna after he began working for Thomas?

4. What possession of Portia's does Anna find in chapter 1?

5. Who asks Major Brutt if he knows Robert Pidgeon?

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