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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where did the bond between Charles and Latimer come from?
(a) The attractiveness of both boys.
(b) The intellect shared between them.
(c) The community of feeling.
(d) A shared illness.

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

4. What final piece of evidence does Latimer need to see before he decides if his visions are really true?
(a) The row of trees and multi-colored birds.
(b) The bridge and archway.
(c) The storm clouds.
(d) The patch of rainbow light in the shape of a star on the pavement.

5. What does Latimer pray to stay with?
(a) His wife.
(b) The unknown.
(c) His father.
(d) His mother.

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

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

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

9. Why do Latimer's servants not answer his bell during his heart attack?
(a) They hope he will die quicker if they do not respond.
(b) They are lovers and left the house arguing.
(c) They cannot hear from where they are.
(d) They are choosing to ignore the bell.

10. When will Latimer's story be told?
(a) By someone else on his deathbed.
(b) During the last month of his life.
(c) After his death.
(d) Never.

11. Why does Latimer's third vision frighten him?
(a) In the vision, he kills Bertha.
(b) In the vision, he dies.
(c) In the vision, his father dies.
(d) In the vision, he and Bertha hate each other.

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

13. Why does Latimer's father think he was strange?
(a) He is extremely sensitive.
(b) He is extremely loud.
(c) He is very outgoing.
(d) He is very intelligent.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What time will Latimer begin to feel his impending death come?

2. Why did Latimer's time in Switzerland end?

3. What happens to Latimer when his father is talking about the places they will go visit in the chapter, "Changes"?

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

5. What does Latimer remember Prague being like?

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