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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. What does Conchis show Nicholas at the end of this section?
(a) A dead octopus.
(b) A statuette.
(c) A woman in white.
(d) A glove.

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

3. Which of the following characters was Nicholas' predecessor at the school?
(a) Miftord.
(b) Byron.
(c) Johnson.
(d) Alison.

4. How does Nicholas feel as he walks back to the school?
(a) As if he is being punished.
(b) As if he is looking through a thick fog.
(c) As though he is returning to reality.
(d) As if his life is just beginning.

5. Which of the following terms describes how Conchis saved his own life and got out of France?
(a) Wounded in action.
(b) Leaving the war without permission.
(c) Honorably discharged.
(d) Duplicitous means.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Conchis use to distract Lily?

2. Where do Nicholas and Alison meet?

3. Which of the following characters was the name of the woman Conchis fell in love with?

4. Which of the following does Conchis say about the odds of survival?

5. What disease does Nicholas believe he contracts?

Short Essay Questions

1. What conclusions did Nicholas draw about what was happening to him at Bourani?

2. What does Conchis tell Nicholas happened to him after he safely makes it back to England?

3. What realization does Nicholas come to in regard to Alison and then about himself?

4. What had changed in the room Nicholas was using when he stayed at Conchis' villa and how was it different?

5. What does Nicholas do once he returns to school in regards to the villa?

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

7. As Nicholas and Conchis are walking back to the house and pass the Poseidon statue, what does Lily admit to Nicholas?

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

9. How does the character of Mitford describe life on the island to Nicholas and what does he speak mysteriously about?

10. What happens when Nicholas tells Conchis that he believes he contracted syphilis?

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