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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Conchis explain Lily's twin sister?
(a) He says she does not exist.
(b) He says Nicholas created her.
(c) He says he doesn't know what he is talking about.
(d) He says that she has a split personality.

2. How does Nicholas fill his time after he is cured from his disease?
(a) Visiting bars.
(b) Writing poetry.
(c) Studying for teaching exams.
(d) Going out to brothels.

3. Which of the following does Conchis say about the odds of survival?
(a) They increase greatly depending on intelligence.
(b) They are stacked against those who fight and the societies that insist upon it.
(c) They always result in negative consequences.
(d) They decrease exponentially the longer the battle.

4. What condition does Conchis put on Nicholas' ability to return to the villa?
(a) He must not ask any questions.
(b) He must not miss a weekend.
(c) He must never bring anyone else with him.
(d) He must keep Conchis's stories private.

5. How does Conchis respond when Nicholas asks him about a woman he saw?
(a) He tells him he was hallucinating.
(b) He tells him to be patient.
(c) He tells him it was Lily.
(d) He tells him there are no women in the villa.

6. What does Nicholas first think that Conchis may be concealing?
(a) Nazi war criminals.
(b) The true story of his time in Germany.
(c) A daughter, wife or mistress.
(d) An unstable relative.

7. What does Nicholas tell Conchis about love?
(a) He has never felt love.
(b) He has been in love before in his life.
(c) He doesn't really know what it is.
(d) He thinks he is in love with Alison.

8. Which of the following characters is the protagonist of this novel?
(a) Alison.
(b) Mitford.
(c) Byron.
(d) Nicholas.

9. What does Conchis invite Nicholas to do?
(a) Garden.
(b) Read.
(c) Paint.
(d) Fish.

10. Where does this story take place?
(a) Madrid.
(b) Rome.
(c) Greece.
(d) Venice.

11. What does Nicholas tell the gatekeeper when he returns his gun?
(a) He found the gun.
(b) It missed its target.
(c) It did not have any ammunition.
(d) He took the gun by mistake.

12. What does Nicholas see in the garden?
(a) Conchis talking to a woman.
(b) Two people in an embrace.
(c) Woman in white.
(d) Maria gathering flowers.

13. How does Conchis explain war to Nicholas?
(a) Candor and surprise mixed with grief and death.
(b) Surprises of character and strength.
(c) Young men vowing to take a chance on dying.
(d) Incomprehensible pain with no reward.

14. What does Nicholas continue to search for in the bathroom and around the house?
(a) Hidden passageways.
(b) Signs of femininity.
(c) Journals or other indications of past memories.
(d) More pieces of art.

15. What did Nicholas find in Conchis' home that he found astonishing?
(a) Nude models.
(b) Original works of art.
(c) A large group of women.
(d) Mirrors everywhere.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following characters do the villagers claim never to have seen?

2. What disease does Nicholas believe he contracts?

3. How does Demetriades appear to spend all of his free time?

4. What happens to Lily a few days after Conchis leaves?

5. How does Mitford describe life on the island to Nicholas?

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