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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does David meet Hella when she comes back to town?
(a) A park bench.
(b) His old apartment.
(c) The train station.
(d) Hella's house.

2. Why is the murder of Guillaume big news?
(a) The neighborhood was formerly crime-free.
(b) It was so gruesome.
(c) His ancestors were important.
(d) It was the third murder at that bar.

3. Why is Hella shocked when Guillaume is murdered?
(a) She thinks David did it.
(b) All of these.
(c) David lived with the murderer.
(d) She knew Guillaume.

4. Why is Hella returning to Paris?
(a) David has proposed to her.
(b) She is suspicious of David.
(c) She misses her family.
(d) She is out of money.

5. Where does David run into Giovanni, while with Hella?
(a) A symphony.
(b) Church.
(c) The bar.
(d) A bookstore.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hella want out of life?

2. What does David think of Americans, in comparison to the French?

3. When Giovanni insults him, how does David feel?

4. How does Hella feel about Jacque?

5. The French news claims what is lost with Guillaume's murder?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does David contemplate suicide?

2. What is Hella worried about, upon seeing David?

3. What does David notice about the American men at American Express?

4. Why is Giovanni's situation so difficult when David leaves?

5. Why does Giovanni make fun of the idea of David "hurting his feelings"?

6. What does Giovanni say will happen to him, if he and David are separated and why?

7. Why is the life in the south of France less than idyllic for David and Hella?

8. Where do Hella and David find a house together?

9. Why does Giovanni smash a cognac glass in Part Two: Chapter Three?

10. What shocking news does David hear regarding Guillaume?

(see the answer keys)

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