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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What could Albert see by straining out of his dining room window?

2. What is Albert said to smell like?

3. According to Albert, who locked him in the bedroom?

4. What does Elisabeth take Irma to the zoo to see?

5. How old is Elisabeth in Chapter 7?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Albert and Margot's first encounter.

2. What does Margot tell Albert when he asks how she found out his name?

3. What does Margot want to buy for her trip with Albert to Solfi?

4. When Margot runs into Otto and his friends , they take her into a bar. What memory does Margot recall?

5. Why did Albert suspect Margot was hiding in his library?

6. What does Axel give to Margot after they leave the dinner party?

7. What excuse does Albert tell Paul for being locked in the bedroom?

8. How is Margot described when Albert first sees her?

9. How does Margot end up acting in a film in Chapter 15?

10. What can Albert tell by watching the expression on Margot's face at the dinner party in Chapter 16?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the setting of the novel "Laughter in the Dark." Where is the novel set? What time period does the novel take place in? Does this time period affect the plot or characters? What do the places in which the characters live, work, and visit tell the reader about them?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the motif of betrayal in the novel "Laughter in the Dark." Who betrays whom in the novel? What effect does this betrayal have on the characters and the plot?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Elisabeth's premonitions in the novel. Why does she have premonitions, and what do they often forecast? When did her premonitions begin? What does she make of her premonitions?

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