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

2. What does Monica's husband want?
(a) A divorce.
(b) An affair.
(c) A dog.
(d) An heir.

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

4. After Edith finishes writing the letter at the beginning of the story, what does she do next?
(a) She unpacks.
(b) She looks out her window.
(c) She lays down for a nap.
(d) She makes a phone call.

5. Where does Edith go for her first walk?
(a) Along the lakeshore.
(b) Along the city streets.
(c) Along the boardwalk.
(d) Along the seashore.

Short Answer Questions

1. What characteristics does a woman have that Edith would consider a tortoise?

2. What was Penelope doing when Edith asked her about David for the first time?

3. What animal does Edith feel that most of the women staying at the Hotel du Lac compare to?

4. How did Iris's late husband provide for her?

5. Why does Monica say that she is staying at the hotel?

Short Essay Questions

1. Name three amenities that the Hotel du Lac does not have that many other hotels do.

2. What is the Hotel du Lac known for?

3. How do Penelope and Edith differ when it comes to men?

4. What does Iris do that makes Edith understand that she is not comfortable socially unless in the dominant position?

5. What is David's wife's reaction to him hinting that he is cheating on her?

6. What does Edith remark to herself while Monica eats her eclair?

7. Why do you think that Edith doesn't defend herself to the unnamed man that mocks her for being a writer?

8. Why does Edith remember when she wrote the book that Iris is reading?

9. What two types of animals does Edith use to describe women and where did she get this idea from?

10. In Chapter 3, what is Edith's letter to David about?

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