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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What causes Latimer's love interest to think that he loves her?
(a) Him fainting the first time they met.
(b) The poems that he writes for her.
(c) The songs that he sings to her.
(d) Nothing, she has no clue.

3. What other problems are associated with Latimer's illness?
(a) Multiple personality disorder.
(b) Bipolar disorder.
(c) Exhilaration.
(d) Thoughts of impending death.

4. Who is described as handsome, confident, and extremely friendly, and evidently did not feel any rivalry with Latimer?
(a) Pierre.
(b) Alfred.
(c) His father.
(d) Mr. Filmore.

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

6. Who is the author of The Lifted Veil?
(a) George Eliot.
(b) William Faulkner.
(c) Robert Louis Stevenson.
(d) Maya Angelou.

7. What does Latimer "see" in his vision of Prague?
(a) His mother.
(b) A storm approaching.
(c) A pasture with horses and flowers.
(d) A city with a long bridge, flanked by statues of saints, over which a castle was looming.

8. Why does Latimer shut himself in rooms alone?
(a) To sabotage the wedding.
(b) To make plans to kill Alfred.
(c) To dream of Bertha uninterrupted.
(d) To write about his death.

9. What image is Latimer obsessed with?
(a) Daybreak.
(b) Shadow.
(c) Light.
(d) Darkness.

10. The narrator will die within what time period?
(a) Two months.
(b) Two weeks.
(c) One week.
(d) One month.

11. Who does Latimer's new talent have no effect on?
(a) Alfred.
(b) Pierre.
(c) Bertha.
(d) His father.

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

13. How does Bertha treat Latimer in private?
(a) She is never alone with Latimer.
(b) She is very distant and ignores him.
(c) She treats him like an infant.
(d) She is not distant and leads him on.

14. Who is Bertha Grant engaged to?
(a) Latimer's father.
(b) Mrs. Filmore's son.
(c) Alfred.
(d) Latimer.

15. What happens to Latimer when his father is talking about the places they will go visit in the chapter, "Changes"?
(a) He gets a vision.
(b) He passes out.
(c) He has a seizure.
(d) He looks out the window.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is another reason that Latimer thinks Bertha will not marry Alfred?

2. How does Bertha treat Latimer in public?

3. What does Latimer compare to his mother's love?

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

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

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