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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Latimer's father's secret help Latimer and Bertha to do?
(a) Take their place in society.
(b) Start a family.
(c) Run away and start a new life.
(d) Get the divorce they both want.

2. What happens to Latimer's father shortly after Latimer's marriage to Bertha?
(a) He leaves the home to Bertha and Latimer and moves into a nursing home.
(b) His health begins to decline.
(c) He begins to spend more time with Latimer.
(d) He regrets the match he has made and drowns himself.

3. Why does Latimer find it curious that Bertha wants to care for Mrs. Archer?
(a) He thought Bertha should be doing other things.
(b) He has heard them fighting lately.
(c) He doesn't really care.
(d) He thougt that Mrs. Archer may be Bertha's mother.

4. What does Mrs. Archer accuse Bertha of doing?
(a) Poisoning Alfred.
(b) Poisoning Latimer.
(c) Poisoning Latimer's father.
(d) Poisoning her daughter.

5. What is another reason that Latimer does not think the wedding will take place?
(a) His visions are always wrong.
(b) Alfred will selfishly find something better for himself.
(c) He planted horrible thoughts in Alfred's mind about Bertha.
(d) He read Alfred's mind.

6. What is the name of the new occupant of Bertha and Latimer's household?
(a) Mrs. Pierre.
(b) Mrs. Archer.
(c) Mrs. Arthor.
(d) Mrs. Filmore.

7. What mistake does Latimer make in asking Bertha if she will love him when they are married?
(a) He believes that Bertha may think that he is crazy.
(b) He believes that he may be sick again.
(c) He believes that he may have slipped up and possibly given an indication of his powers.
(d) He believes that Alfred heard them.

8. How many months after the death are Latimer and Bertha married?
(a) 18.
(b) 9.
(c) 6.
(d) 24.

9. While they are married, why do Latimer and Bertha begin to spend more time alone?
(a) Because they are at home nursing Latimer's father.
(b) Because they now have a child.
(c) Because Bertha is very ill.
(d) Because they have spent all of their money.

10. Latimer dies in what city?
(a) Prague.
(b) Munich.
(c) Devonshire.
(d) Paris.

11. What has changed in the relationship between Alfred and Bertha upon returning home?
(a) Nothing has changed.
(b) They are formally engaged.
(c) They have decided not to get married.
(d) Bertha and Latimer are engaged.

12. Who does Latimer return home from Switzerland with?
(a) Bertha.
(b) His father.
(c) Mrs. Filmore.
(d) Alfred.

13. What does Latimer's father suggest he do now that Alfred is gone?
(a) Settle on living a life of solitude.
(b) Marry Bertha.
(c) Become a priest.
(d) Leave town.

14. Why does Bertha think that Latimer will not "end their marriage"?
(a) His father is pressuring him to stay in the marriage.
(b) He believes in the vows too strongly.
(c) He is too weak to survive without her.
(d) It is not in his nature.

15. What time of year does Bertha get married?
(a) Spring (April).
(b) Summer (July).
(c) Fall (October).
(d) Winter (January).

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Latimer believe that Bertha will marry him and not Alfred?

2. How does Latimer feel about his father after the death?

3. Who is killed during a hunting accident?

4. Which of Latimer's childhood friends come to visit him after his father's death?

5. What happens after Mrs. Archer accuses Bertha?

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