View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Conchis say the young woman who will be joining him and Nicholas should be treated?
(a) As though she is an amnesiac.
(b) As though she cannot talk.
(c) As though she is well known to them.
(d) As though she cannot hear.

2. How does Nicholas describe the idea of being in Greece?
(a) His life's greatest desire.
(b) Taking an almost obsessive hold over him.
(c) The only option for a future he had open to him.
(d) Something he needed to be talked into.

3. How does Nicholas react to the smoke he sees coming from the chimney of a house?
(a) Anger.
(b) Fear.
(c) Surprise.
(d) Terror.

4. What kind of habitation does Nicholas notice near the villa?
(a) Animal habitation.
(b) Feminine habitation.
(c) Masculine habitation.
(d) Bird habitation.

5. When did conversation between Nicholas and Conchis become particularly difficult?
(a) When Conchis was asked about the events in WWII.
(b) When Nicholas was asked if he had any women in his life.
(c) When Nicholas was asked why he had come to Greece.
(d) When Conchis was asked why he invited Nicholas to his home.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Conchis return to Europe?

2. How does Conchis explain Lily's twin sister?

3. Which of the following best describes how Nicholas views himself as a poet?

4. What was the name of the idealistic group of physicians Conchis joined?

5. What does Conchis use to distract Lily?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What kind of novel is this novel and how does the narrative structure play into this framework?

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

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

5. What does Nicholas observe after he releases Lily and watches her go?

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

7. What does the main character of this novel learn and how long does he have to gather this information?

8. How does Conchis describe the series of events that brought him to where he is today and how does he indicate it has affected him?

9. What does Nicholas receive from Maria and what is contained in what he receives?

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

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 751 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample