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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the hotel keeper have sent to the American wife in her room?
(a) A bottle of champagne
(b) A flower arrangement
(c) A fruit basket
(d) A cat

2. Who is Hubert Elliot in the story in Chapter 9?
(a) A mechanic
(b) A lawyer
(c) A postgraduate student
(d) A landscaper

3. What does the wife tell the maid that she wanted?
(a) Her dry cleaning
(b) Her car
(c) Room service
(d) The cat

4. What does the traveler think that Italy is?
(a) So depressing he cannot wait to leave
(b) The start of everything for the Communist party
(c) The most beautiful country he has ever seen
(d) A haven for art and culture enthusiasts

5. Where is the person from #101 traveling?
(a) France
(b) Germany
(c) Poland
(d) Italy

6. What do Peduzzi and the American couple stop for as they walk through the streets?
(a) Drinks
(b) Puppet show
(c) Flea market
(d) Dinner

7. What is the name of the young man who is the central character in the story for Chapter 11?
(a) James
(b) John
(c) He is not named
(d) Clay

8. The story in Chapter 8 is not so much a story as a ______________________.
(a) novel
(b) poem
(c) essay
(d) character sketch

9. What does the maid give the wife?
(a) Fresh towels
(b) A hair dryer
(c) Clean laundry
(d) An umbrella

10. What is Hubert's wife's name?
(a) Camille
(b) Cornelia
(c) Catherine
(d) Connie

11. What wounded animal is treated cruelly in the Memoir for Chapter 10?
(a) A cow
(b) A horse
(c) A bull
(d) A sheep

12. Who does the wife speak to on her way out of the building?
(a) The hotel keeper
(b) The valet
(c) The concierge
(d) The maid

13. What does the Matador confess to the narrator at the cafe?
(a) He never wanted to be a bullfighter
(b) He is quitting the profession
(c) He is not a very good bullfighter
(d) He is terminally ill

14. How does Joe's father die?
(a) Suicide
(b) Drive-by shooting
(c) A car accident
(d) A horseracing accident

15. Who sleeps in the big mediaeval bed?
(a) The Elliots' guests
(b) The Elliots' dog
(c) Mrs. Elliot and her female lover
(d) Mr. and Mrs. Elliot

Short Answer Questions

1. What nationality do the police think the two dead men are?

2. Who joins the Elliot household?

3. Where are the young man and his wife staying?

4. Where do Joe and his father move?

5. Where does Nick debark from the train?

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