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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following terms best describes Maria as she brings breakfast to Nicholas?
(a) Deaf.
(b) Curious.
(c) Chatty.
(d) Silent.

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

3. What does Conchis tell Nicholas he will be conducting the following evening?
(a) Musical performance.
(b) Poetry reading.
(c) Experiment.
(d) Art show.

4. How does Conchis get Nicholas to play?
(a) Manipulates.
(b) Forces.
(c) Bullies.
(d) Begs,

5. What does Nicholas think Conchis' events the following evening will have to do with?
(a) Psychic communication.
(b) Sexual education.
(c) Story-telling.
(d) Musical appreciation.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did conversation between Nicholas and Conchis become particularly difficult?

2. How does Nicholas respond to Alison's emotional reaction?

3. What disease does Nicholas believe he contracts?

4. What did Nicholas find in Conchis' home that he found astonishing?

5. Why doesn't Conchis eat breakfast with Nicholas?

Short Essay Questions

1. What shocks Nicholas when he is looking around the music room?

2. How does Nicholas feel about the boys and his colleagues at the school?

3. What does Nicholas consider when he realizes that he is a very bad poet and what actually happens?

4. What information does Conchis volunteer to Nicholas?

5. What does Lily admit to Nicholas while they are together on the beach after lunch?

6. What does Nicholas see when he goes downstairs himself after Conchis heads upstairs?

7. Who does Nicholas contact via letter and what does he hope to happen because of the letter?

8. What does Nicholas think Conchis is doing to him and how does that relate to Levierre and Mitford?

9. What discussion takes place in regard to the voices heard by Nicholas the night before?

10. How did Conchis describe his time in Word War II and how it affected him?

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