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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. Where does Clive meet his fiancée?
(a) London.
(b) Cambridge.
(c) Greece.
(d) Italy.

2. What is the name of Alec's brother?
(a) Scott.
(b) Will.
(c) Fred.
(d) Zach.

3. During the match in Chapter 39, how does Maurice feel when he sees Alec?
(a) Sad.
(b) Nervous.
(c) Angry.
(d) Happy.

4. What does Maurice begin to contemplate after his fight with Clive?
(a) Clive's relationship with Ada.
(b) Suicide.
(c) His own sexuality.
(d) The meaning of life.

5. How does Scudder get into Maurice's room?
(a) A ladder.
(b) A secret passage.
(c) Scaling the wall.
(d) Through the door.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Maurice learn about Tchaikovsky in Chapter 32?

2. What does Scudder's father do for a living?

3. What does Maurice try to convince Alec to do after they spend the night together in London?

4. What happens when Maurice returns to his room in Chapter 39?

5. How long does it take before Maurice starts to feel the loss of Clive?

Short Essay Questions

1. What information does Risley give Maurice about a famous composer? How does this information make Maurice feel?

2. Whom does Maurice go to first to try to cure his homosexuality? Why does he go to this person?

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

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

5. After Clive breaks up with Maurice, what does Maurice think will happen? What is Maurice's life dependent on?

6. What does Maurice announce to Clive when he is visiting Penge in Chapter 35? What is Clive's reaction to this? How does this make Maurice feel?

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

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

9. How does Maurice get tickets to the opera in Chapter 32? What composer's music was being played?

10. How does Maurice find out about Clive's engagement? Whom does he meet that very same day?

(see the answer keys)

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