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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. When Clive calls Maurice, how many of Clive's friends does his fiancée say she had talked to?
(a) Two.
(b) Eight.
(c) Only Maurice.
(d) Twenty.

2. When Maurice first arrives at Penge in Chapter 34, who greets him?
(a) Clive.
(b) Mr. London.
(c) Scudder.
(d) Anne.

3. What does Clive learn about Anne on their wedding night?
(a) She knows he is gay.
(b) She was well educated in sex.
(c) She was uneducated about sex.
(d) She doesn't want to have children.

4. Whom does Maurice see on the day of Alec's departure?
(a) Anne.
(b) Risley.
(c) Mr. Borenius.
(d) Clive.

5. What falls on the piano in Chapter 34?
(a) A pot of tea.
(b) Water from the roof.
(c) A champagne glass.
(d) Maurice.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Maurice's response to the telegram in Chapter 40?

2. What does Clive do that makes Maurice shudder in Chapter 35?

3. When Maurice returns home in Chapter 40, what do he and his mother do?

4. Why does Maurice choose Dr.Barry to go to first about his condition?

5. What does Dr. Barry tell Maurice about his troubles?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Maurice try to tell his grandfather but cannot? What does Maurice realize about life from his grandfather?

2. What does Alec's letter to Maurice say in Chapter 42? How does Maurice respond to this letter?

3. On his way back to his room, whom does Maurice talk to in Chapter 37? When does he see this person next?

4. Whom does Ada become engaged to? What does Maurice do after she becomes engaged?

5. When Maurice yells at Ada, what does he accuse her of? What does he tell Ada Clive said about her?

6. On the day of Alec's scheduled departure, whom does Maurice see at the dock? Why is he afraid?

7. What advice does Lasker give Maurice? What does he say about England?

8. When Clive writes to Maurice after they break up, what does each letter say? What is uncharacteristic about Maurice and Clive's letters to one another during this time?

9. After Maurice sees Lasker for the last time, what does he decide about himself? How does he reconcile this?

10. Where do Maurice and Alec meet in London? Whom does Maurice see there?

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