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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 Catherine decide to do while staying in one country on their honeymoon?

2. What do David and Catherine drink with their lunch while traveling in Spain?

3. What does Catherine call Marita the day after David returns?

4. What does David decide to start doing in Chapter 4?

5. Which of the following does David NOT drink while Catherine is away on drives?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does David lie awake thinking about at night, and why?

2. How does David feel about Catherine's haircut?

3. What does Catherine force David to do when they stay in France again?

4. What does Catherine do while on her trip alone to Biarritz?

5. What does David do when he wakes up the morning after returning to the girls?

6. Why does Catherine go up to her room alone after David talks about the effects of absinthe?

7. How does David feel about Catherine and the beautiful girl in Chapter 12, and what does he do about it?

8. How does David catch his sea bass?

9. What does David do while Catherine goes on her drives alone in France?

10. What does David get in the mail during his honeymoon?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What are some of the ways David, Catherine, and Marita show their love to one another, and how do these displays alter the course of the plot?

Essay Topic 2

How does the relationship between the three lovers change throughout the course of the plot, and how do these changes affect the characters around them?

Essay Topic 3

Anger is an emotion that emerges in a few very sensitive places in the plot. What are some of these instances, and how are the outcome of the plot and the characters involved in those scene affected by this anger?

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