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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What subjects are private tutors hired to teach Latimer?
(a) Math and geometry.
(b) Literature and writing.
(c) Natural science, history, and modern language.
(d) Art and music.

3. What is Latimer's second psychic ability?
(a) Ability to cure illnesses.
(b) Ability to make others forget the past.
(c) Reading other people's thoughts.
(d) Super strength.

4. What age was the narrator when his mother died?
(a) Four or five.
(b) Nine or ten.
(c) Six.
(d) Seven or eight.

5. When Latimer "awakens" from his vision of Prague, what does he begin to do?
(a) Question his mental state.
(b) Laugh.
(c) Cry.
(d) Runs from the house.

6. Who enters the room during Latimer's vision of Prague?
(a) His father.
(b) Alfred.
(c) His mother.
(d) Pierre, a servant.

7. What is one reason that Latimer thinks Bertha will never marry Alfred?
(a) Because she is already secretly married.
(b) Because she loves their father.
(c) Because their engagement is not formal.
(d) Because she is very sick and will not make it to the wedding day.

8. How does Latimer tell his story?
(a) Through picture framing.
(b) Through dream interpretation.
(c) Through flashbacks.
(d) Through diary analysis.

9. What does Latimer remember Prague being like?
(a) A long row of trees with muiti-colored birds in the branches.
(b) A patch of rainbow light on the pavement, transmitted through a colored lamp in the shape of a star.
(c) A cold and dark place.
(d) A city that brings only fear and hatred.

10. What is Latimer's first hatred?
(a) The doctor, Mr. Letherall.
(b) His brother, Alfred.
(c) His mother.
(d) His father.

11. What kind of writing is The Lifted Veil?
(a) A novella.
(b) A biography.
(c) An epic poem.
(d) A graphic novel.

12. 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.

13. What happens as Latimer's ability to read minds becomes stronger?
(a) He starts reading Bertha's mind.
(b) He aquires the ability to place thoughts into other's heads.
(c) He starts having more visions.
(d) He stops having visions.

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

15. Which character can see their own death?
(a) Latimer.
(b) The Father.
(c) Bertha.
(d) Mrs. Archer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Latimer's older half-brother?

2. What does Latimer decide to do about his first vision in regards to his third vision?

3. While at Basel, who does Latimer begin to hate more than anyone else?

4. What emotion does Eliot want readers to share with Latimer?

5. Who joins Latimer and the others at Basel?

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