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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 was Mathilde's name as a young child?

2. What did Lotto and Mathilde eat at the end of Chapter 4 in Furies?

3. What did Lotto wake Mathilde with every day that they had lived under the same roof?

4. What had Mathilde and Lotto been driving before his mother died?

5. In Chapter 10 of Furies, when the man who followed Mathilde got her a taxi, when did he tell her to call him?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Mathilde feel about all the people who attend Lotto's funeral?

2. How did the private investigator that Mathilde hired know Lotto?

3. Why didn't Mathilde ever have children?

4. In Chapter 7 of Furies, why did Mathilde go to Thailand?

5. What was the house like where Mathilde's uncle lived in Chapter 8 of Furies?

6. How did Mathilde find Lotto when he died?

7. In Chapter 8 of Furies, what did Mathilde do so she didn't have to be at her uncle's house very much?

8. What do Chollie and Mathilde have in common when he comes to her after Lotto dies?

9. How did Mathilde's little brother die?

10. What did Mathilde's maternal grandmother look like when she picked up Mathilde at the train station in Chapter 6 of Furies?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Lotto experiences abandonment first when his father dies. What are some times that Lotto experiences abandonment and how do those experiences shape the choices he makes?

Essay Topic 2

Mathilde didn't share everything with Lotto. What secrets did she hide from him and why didn't she share these secrets with him?

Essay Topic 3

Someone called Lotto a misogynist. Explain whether Lotto was a misogynist based upon things he does and things that happen in the novel.

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