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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is Latimer's primary goal against his rival?
(a) Gain Bertha's attention.
(b) Murder his rival.
(c) Gain Mrs. Filmore's attention.
(d) Gain his father's attention.

4. Where is the narrator sitting during the last moments of life?
(a) On the bed.
(b) On a window seat.
(c) At a desk.
(d) On a swing on the front porch.

5. 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.

6. What does Latimer's father do for a living?
(a) He is a doctor.
(b) He is a banker.
(c) He is a con man.
(d) He is a mortician.

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

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

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

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

11. What affliction did the narrator suffer from as a child?
(a) Hemophilia.
(b) Headaches.
(c) Blindness.
(d) Seizures.

12. After his vision, who does Latimer ask to go find his father?
(a) Alfred.
(b) Mrs. Filmore
(c) Pierre.
(d) No one.

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

14. Why does Latimer choose this specific gift for Bertha's birthday?
(a) He knew she loves Shakespeare.
(b) He could only afford the wrap and not the coat.
(c) It has deep symbolic meaning.
(d) It was expensive.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Latimer read in secret?

2. Where does Latimer's father take him everyday?

3. What causes Latimer's love interest to think that he loves her?

4. What will the narrator die from?

5. Why does Latimer's father think he was strange?

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