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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What time does the workday end?
(a) 6 o'clock.
(b) 5 o'clock.
(c) 7 o'clock.
(d) 5:30.

2. Who says, "do you think that it's possible for anyone to reach such a state except through despair"?
(a) The man.
(b) The child.
(c) Anne.
(d) The patronne.

3. What is coming from the person's mouth whom Anne sees in the cafe just after the music lesson ends in Chapter 1?
(a) A tooth.
(b) Spit.
(c) Blood.
(d) Foam.

4. Who is waiting for Anne when she enters the cafe in Chapter 4?
(a) The teacher.
(b) The patronne.
(c) The man.
(d) Anne's husband.

5. What type of flower does the man tell Anne was between her breasts at the factory worker's party the previous year?
(a) A violet.
(b) A rose.
(c) A carnation.
(d) A magnolia.

6. Where does the child play while Anne drinks at the bar?
(a) Upstairs at the teacher's apartment.
(b) In the bar.
(c) On the sidewalk.
(d) In the street.

7. At the beginning of Chapter 2, what are the child and Anne walking toward?
(a) The business district.
(b) The affluent area of town.
(c) The port area.
(d) The lake area.

8. What does Anne tell her child at the end of Chapter 2?
(a) That he is smart.
(b) That he is sweet.
(c) That she thinks she invented him.
(d) That he must behave.

9. What is the man at the bar doing when Anne first enters?
(a) Doing a puzzle.
(b) Reading a book.
(c) Drinking coffee.
(d) Reading a newspaper.

10. What does the man tell Anne is in bloom in her garden?
(a) An orange tree.
(b) A magnolia tree.
(c) A rosemary bush.
(d) A rose bush.

11. What does the man say is outside of Anne's house?
(a) A large tree.
(b) A big walled garden.
(c) Many bushes.
(d) A pool.

12. Who says, "all I know is that he shot her through the heart"?
(a) Anne.
(b) The patronne.
(c) The child.
(d) The man at the bar.

13. Where does the man at the bar say the dead woman's husband worked?
(a) A restaurant.
(b) The dockyard.
(c) In the cafe.
(d) He doesn't say.

14. At the end of Chapter 1, who is standing with Anne's child when she returns from the scene in the cafe?
(a) The teacher.
(b) A stranger.
(c) No one.
(d) Another child.

15. Where do Anne and the child go to when they leave their affluent part of town at the beginning of Chapter 3?
(a) The cafe.
(b) The teacher's apartment.
(c) The seashore.
(d) The tug port.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many years ago did Anne get married?

2. Where do Anne and the man go to sit after he approaches her in Chapter 4?

3. What reason does Anne tell the man she closes her window at night?

4. What objects does Anne see when she looks out the window of the teacher's apartment in Chapter 1?

5. What is the name of the child's teacher?

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