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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1, Travels.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What time will Latimer begin to feel his impending death come?
(a) Ten o'clock a.m.
(b) Ten o'clock p.m.
(c) Midnight.
(d) Noon.

2. Why does George Eliot give Latimer psychic powers?
(a) To make the story more believable.
(b) To allow the story to be catagorized under Science Fiction.
(c) To show readers that Latimer is crazy.
(d) Because he wants readers to experience the story as though they were the one dying.

3. Why did Latimer's time in Switzerland end?
(a) His half-brother died.
(b) He contracted a severe illness.
(c) He died.
(d) He finished school.

4. What emotion does Eliot want readers to share with Latimer?
(a) His happiness.
(b) His love.
(c) His joy.
(d) His pain.

5. Why was the narrator's childhood happy?
(a) Because the narrator received a horse as a present.
(b) Because the narrator lived near the mountains.
(c) Because the narrator did not have supernatural powers yet.
(d) Because the narrator's mother was dead.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Latimer's new talent show in others?

2. Who does Latimer meet in Switzerland?

3. What is Latimer's primary goal against his rival?

4. How is Latimer to die?

5. What is the name of Latimer's neighbors that come to Switzerland?

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