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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Penelope think about Edith's books?
(a) Penelope is jealous of Edith's books.
(b) That the books are about romantic encounters that were absent from Edith's real life.
(c) Penelope thinks that Edith's books are boring.
(d) Penelope thinks that Edith should write science fiction books instead.

2. What does Iris say about the unnamed man at the cafe when he walks away from Edith?
(a) Iris tells Edith that the man smells badly.
(b) Iris tells Edith that she has an admirer.
(c) Iris tells Edith that the man is married.
(d) Iris tells Edith that the man looked suspicious.

3. Who does Iris Pusey say that Edith's face reminds her of?
(a) Princess Monica.
(b) Princess Diana.
(c) Princess Anne.
(d) Princess Fergi.

4. How does Edith describe her mother?
(a) Sick.
(b) Unhappy.
(c) Full of life.
(d) Rich.

5. What is the name of Edith's novel that she is working on?
(a) Together.
(b) Beneath the Starry Night.
(c) Beneath the Visiting Moon.
(d) Lovers Lane.

6. What will happen if Monica doesn't give her husband what he wants?
(a) Monica will be told to stay at the hotel until she does.
(b) Monica's husband will take a lover.
(c) Monica's husband will hit her.
(d) Monica will be told to leave.

7. How old does Edith guess the mother to be in the mother/daughter companionship?
(a) Upper Sixties.
(b) Upper Seventies.
(c) Upper Eighties.
(d) Upper Fifties.

8. The unnamed man at the cafe finds the idea that Edith may be a writer ________.
(a) Worrying.
(b) Serious.
(c) Amusing.
(d) Weird.

9. When Edith sees a tall and slender woman at the beginning of the story she assumes that she must be a what?
(a) A volleyball player.
(b) A model.
(c) Dancer.
(d) A basketball player.

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

11. What does Edith do while in the dining room for the first time?
(a) Works on her novel.
(b) She eats pizza.
(c) She reads a book.
(d) She files her fingernails.

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

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

14. Why does Edith close her eyes once seated at the dinner table for the first time?
(a) She dreads sitting down for a public meal.
(b) She is tired.
(c) She feels ill.
(d) She thinks that she hears a familiar voice.

15. Who does Edith see while sitting outside at the cafe downtown?
(a) David walking down the street.
(b) Jennifer Pusey riding in a car.
(c) The tall woman chasing her little dog.
(d) Iris Pusey riding in a car.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do you know that the hotel allows animals?

2. Why is Iris Pusey visibly upset while in town in Chapter 4?

3. Where is Edith originally from?

4. What does Edith buy when she goes shopping?

5. What is the name of the man that has gone unnamed until Chapter 5?

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