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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator say he wants to do to the woman when she angers him?
(a) Run away with her.
(b) Kill her.
(c) Blind her.
(d) Torture her.

2. What does the woman watch every afternoon?
(a) The television.
(b) The sunset.
(c) The ducks.
(d) The dancing girls.

3. What does the narrator bring to give to the woman on the beach?
(a) Wine.
(b) Chocolates.
(c) Berries.
(d) Flowers.

4. What does Faustine fail to stop Morel from doing?
(a) Kissing her.
(b) Swearing at the narrator.
(c) Trampling on the narrator's flowers.
(d) Eating the narrator's berries.

5. What does the man think is causing him to hallucinate?
(a) The water.
(b) The mushrooms.
(c) The roots.
(d) The air.

6. Morel compares his invention to what?
(a) The beer, the stamp and the computer.
(b) The telephone, the DVD player and the cinema.
(c) The radio, the phonograph and the television.
(d) The telegram, the wireless and the television.

7. Whose photograph does Morel say he can show them?
(a) Peter's.
(b) Charlie's.
(c) John's.
(d) David's.

8. Why does Morel like the tides?
(a) They are fun for swimming.
(b) They provide power for his machine.
(c) They stop people from leaving.
(d) They ward away visitors.

9. About whom does the narrator dream in this section?
(a) His sister.
(b) The rug seller.
(c) Faustine.
(d) Morel.

10. Why does the narrator decide against killing himself?
(a) He wants to kill Morel.
(b) He has no pratical method to do it.
(c) He has to see Faustine again.
(d) Faustine is not there to mourn him.

11. Who is ordering around the servants?
(a) Faustine.
(b) The rug seller.
(c) Jane.
(d) Morel.

12. What does Morel say he wants to happen before he begins?
(a) Silence.
(b) Everyone to be there.
(c) Everyone to toast to his success.
(d) A sing song.

13. The narrator say the swimming pool is full of what animals?
(a) Alligators and dragonflies.
(b) Toads and flies.
(c) Frogs and snakes.
(d) Newts and crocs.

14. What will a dial on the machine allow those present to feel?
(a) The air.
(b) Madeline's skin.
(c) The narrator's skin.
(d) The museum's walls.

15. Who does the narrator think has contracted the island's horrible disease?
(a) Faustine.
(b) Morel.
(c) Everyone.
(d) Himself.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Faustine tell Morel she thinks he is?

2. What does the large hall look like it has been set up to host?

3. What did Morel think the reef would ward off?

4. What announces the beginning of dinner?

5. What problem does the narrator have with the room where he sleeps that night?

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