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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What objects were always embedded in the stationery George's mother provided for the family's New Year's ritual?
(a) Orange peels.
(b) Flower petals.
(c) Bark.
(d) Leaves.

2. George's mother died as a result of experiencing an allergic reaction to what kind of drug?
(a) A sleeping pill.
(b) An antibiotic.
(c) An opiate.
(d) A vitamin.

3. In what city does George currently live with her father and her brother Henry?
(a) Nice.
(b) Cambridge.
(c) Lisbon.
(d) Madrid.

4. H asks George about a photograph in George's mother's study that features what town?
(a) Cambridge.
(b) Padua.
(c) Ferrara.
(d) Venice.

5. How does George respond to H's romantic gesture?
(a) She says she needs time to think.
(b) She says she is not ready.
(c) She says she is straight.
(d) She does not respond.

6. When George finally confessed her transgression to her mother, she said she had been keeping the secret for what length of time?
(a) Years.
(b) Months.
(c) Days.
(d) Weeks.

7. In what month had George, Henry, and their mother eaten dinner near the castle in Italy?
(a) June.
(b) May.
(c) April.
(d) January.

8. George's eye keeps being drawn to a strip of what color in Francesco's painting?
(a) White.
(b) Red.
(c) Brown.
(d) Blue.

9. George and H develop a studying technique that involves what form of literature?
(a) Poems.
(b) Songs.
(c) Short stories.
(d) Memoirs.

10. What substance does George's father abuse after the death of his wife/George's mother?
(a) Alcohol.
(b) Pain medication.
(c) Muscle relaxants.
(d) Cocaine.

11. In what location does George generally engage in her daily ritual viewing of the pornographic video?
(a) Her loft bedroom.
(b) On the train.
(c) The garden.
(d) The park.

12. George's mother had told George about a female Renaissance painter with what name?
(a) Mary.
(b) Louise.
(c) Anne.
(d) Catherine.

13. What is the first name of George's father?
(a) Nathan.
(b) Connor.
(c) Henry.
(d) Blake.

14. What two terms had mysteriously flitted through George's head every time her mother had gotten out her phone during the trip to Italy?
(a) Joy and sadness.
(b) Guilt and fury.
(c) Joy and adoration.
(d) Anger and desperation.

15. George allows H to push her in what kind of a wheeled object?
(a) A shopping cart.
(b) A chair.
(c) A go-kart.
(d) A stroller.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what grade are the young women who habitually record sounds in the bathroom at George's school?

2. How old is Henry in the narrative present?

3. What romantic gesture does H make toward George for the first time on her third visit to George's house?

4. What position does Mrs. Rock hold within George's secondary school?

5. George's mother told George that Lisa's attention had turned from flattering to what?

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