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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, The Engagement.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Alfred ask Bertha while they are walking?
(a) How she could love their father.
(b) If she believes in being able to see the future.
(c) How she could love Alfred.
(d) Why she is planning on running away.

2. Where does Alfred invite Latimer to go because it is "the finest thing in the world for low spirits"?
(a) Hunting.
(b) To an opera.
(c) Fishing.
(d) Shopping.

3. What does Latimer compare his arrival in Switzerland to?
(a) The worst moments of his life.
(b) His homeland.
(c) The gates of hell.
(d) The entrance to heaven.

4. Why do Latimer and Charles get along so well?
(a) They both want to become doctors.
(b) Latimer takes pity on him.
(c) Latimer shares his understanding of isolation.
(d) They both have "the bumps".

5. Where is the narrator sitting during the last moments of life?
(a) At a desk.
(b) On a swing on the front porch.
(c) On the bed.
(d) On a window seat.

Short Answer Questions

1. What causes Latimer's love interest to think that he loves her?

2. Who does Latimer return home from Switzerland with?

3. When Latimer is not with Bertha, what does he do?

4. Who is the only person that Latimer falls in love with throughout his life?

5. What does Latimer's father do for a living?

(see the answer key)

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