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

2. Which of the following is an accurate description of the school at which Nicholas finds a job?
(a) It is a private school.
(b) It is located in Italy.
(c) It is an all girl's school.
(d) It is a college.

3. What does Nicholas do when he returns to his room instead of preparing to sleep?
(a) Heads down to the beach to walk.
(b) Looks at books from the small library.
(c) Searches the house for more women's garments.
(d) Stands by his window and waits.

4. What does Conchis insist in regard to Nicholas?
(a) He shares his life story with Conchis.
(b) He does not touch Conchis in anyway.
(c) He never interrupts when Conchis is talking.
(d) He asks no questions.

5. What does Conchis use to distract Lily?
(a) Talking about the telegram.
(b) Making tea.
(c) Hypnotizing Nicholas.
(d) Helping to reconstruct a garden wall.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has changed in Nicholas' room?

2. What does Nicholas challenge Lily to admit?

3. What does Alison do when she and Nicholas return to her hotel room?

4. What does Nicholas first think that Conchis may be concealing?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. While Nicholas is walking back to the school after his weekend with Conchis, what does he feel as though he entered?

7. What happens between Nicholas and Alison in the hut and what does this lead Nicholas to decide to do?

8. Why does Nicholas say that he will not be able to have sex with her and how does she decide to handle this news?

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

10. What does Nicholas discover when he is heading to his favorite part of the island on his hike and how does he feel upon this discovery?

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