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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Latimer describe as sarcastic, cynical, and unimaginative?
(a) Bertha.
(b) Mrs. Filmore.
(c) Mrs. Archer.
(d) The servant.

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

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

4. What moments in Switzerland did Latimer never feel alone?
(a) During his visits to town.
(b) On the shore reading his poetry.
(c) In the boat on the lake.
(d) In the home he was staying in.

5. Why does Latimer initially fall in love with his only love?
(a) Because he cannot read her mind.
(b) Because he cannot have her.
(c) Because he hates her fiance.
(d) Because it is forbidden.

6. Who comes to Switzerland to see Latimer during the end of his stay?
(a) Mrs. Archer
(b) Bertha.
(c) Alfred.
(d) His father.

7. What does Latimer's new talent show in others?
(a) Their pettiness.
(b) Their appreciation of Latimer.
(c) Their love for Bertha.
(d) Their fear of Latimer.

8. Who does Latimer trust?
(a) No one.
(b) Only his father.
(c) Everyone.
(d) Only Bertha.

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

10. How is the woman with Mrs. Filmore related to her?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her sister.
(c) Her long-lost daughter.
(d) An orphaned niece.

11. At what age does Latimer go to Switzerland?
(a) 15.
(b) 14.
(c) 16.
(d) 17.

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

13. When the narrator rings the bell during the last moments of life, who comes in to help?
(a) Bertha.
(b) No one.
(c) Mrs. Archer.
(d) His father.

14. What happens when Latimer realizes that his visions are coming true?
(a) He runs away screaming.
(b) He dies.
(c) He hugs his father.
(d) He faints.

15. During his death, Latimer thinks of what natural images?
(a) Earth, fields, a brook, the rain, and morning light.
(b) Ocean, sharks, and storm clouds.
(c) Rainbows, fish, and trees.
(d) Mountains, rivers, and valleys.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Latimer choose this specific gift for Bertha's birthday?

2. Why do Latimer and Charles get along so well?

3. Who makes fun of Latimer's poetic nature and ridicules his favorite poems?

4. When Latimer's father is late for their shopping trip, Latimer has another vision. What does Latimer see in this vision?

5. Who enters the room during Latimer's vision of Prague?

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