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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Edith tell Monica about Jennifer?
(a) Edith tells Monica that she really likes Jennifer.
(b) Edith tells Monica that she cannot understand Jennifer.
(c) Edith tells Monica that she is jealous of Jennifer.
(d) Edith tells Monica that she doesn't like Jennifer.

2. What does Monica tell Edith she is under strict orders not to do?
(a) Drink.
(b) Run.
(c) Swim.
(d) Smoke.

3. Why do the Puseys stay at the hotel briefly each year?
(a) To visit their family's grave site.
(b) To see a doctor nearby.
(c) To escape the cold from their home town.
(d) It is a shopping trip.

4. How did Iris's late husband provide for her?
(a) He gave all his money to his mistress instead.
(b) He spent all his money on alcohol because he was an alcoholic.
(c) He was poor and couldn't provide for her.
(d) He provided her with everything she desired.

5. Why does Mme. de Bonneuil not live with her son?
(a) Mme. de Bonneuil has lost touch with her son.
(b) Mme. de Bonneuil son's wife refuses to allow her to live with them.
(c) Mme. de Bonneuil needs special care that her son cannot provide.
(d) Mme. de Bonneuil doesn't like her son.

6. What happens when Edith wakes up from sleeping in Chapter 5?
(a) Edith has a headache.
(b) Edith is sick to her stomach.
(c) Edith reads a book.
(d) Edith finishes writing her book.

7. What does Monica want out of her marriage?
(a) Happiness.
(b) Political positioning.
(c) A child.
(d) Money.

8. Iris sees Monica as a what?
(a) Iris doesn't know Monica.
(b) Bum.
(c) Fortune hunter.
(d) Gossip.

9. Why has Monica's husband sent her away to stay at the hotel?
(a) To get over a lover.
(b) So that Monica can have their baby.
(c) To recuperate.
(d) So that he can take a lover.

10. Why is it painful for Edith to see David's wife?
(a) Edith feels guilty.
(b) David looks at his wife differently then he does Edith.
(c) David's wife is attractive.
(d) She represents everything that Edith will never have.

11. What does Monica tell Edith about how Mme. de Bonneuil's feels about her son?
(a) Mme. de Bonneuil doesn't like her son.
(b) Mme. de Bonneuil likes her daughter better.
(c) Mme. de Bonneuil lives for her son.
(d) Mme de Bonneuil doesn't know that she has a son.

12. Iris tells Edith in her hotel room that she always makes sure that Jennifer is fitted out how?
(a) With the bare essentials.
(b) Like a maid servant.
(c) Like a queen.
(d) Like an average citizen.

13. What was Penelope doing when Edith asked her about David for the first time?
(a) Washing dishes.
(b) Folding the laundry.
(c) Dusting her house.
(d) Making the bed.

14. What was the first thing that David ever said to Edith?
(a) "Your eyes are beautiful."
(b) "I must be getting back to the Rooms."
(c) "I think that I have found love at first sight."
(d) "I love your perfume."

15. Who is dead in Edith's family?
(a) Her father.
(b) Her brother.
(c) Her sister.
(d) Her mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the woman who has carried around a dog, nameless up to this point in the story?

2. When Edith first gets to the hotel, who does she write a letter to?

3. When Edith had coffee with the Puseys after her first dinner, who controlled the conversation?

4. What is wrong with Monica's health?

5. Why is Edith disturbed with Jennifer overall?

(see the answer keys)

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