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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Whose room is described as "a quiet room, the best room in the house"?
(a) Anne's.
(b) The child's.
(c) Anne's husband's.
(d) The kitchen.

6. What does Anne say "never fails" and "always comes back"?
(a) The wind.
(b) Her child.
(c) Her husband.
(d) Wine.

7. Who leads Anne home from the cafe in Chapter 4?
(a) The patronne.
(b) The child.
(c) The man.
(d) The teacher.

8. What term does the teacher ask the child to define in Chapter 1?
(a) Cinque terre.
(b) Moderato Cantabile.
(c) Carpe diem.
(d) La dolce vita.

9. 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 carnation.
(c) A magnolia.
(d) A rose.

10. Who says, "it would have been impossible for me not to come back"?
(a) The teacher.
(b) Anne.
(c) The man.
(d) The child.

11. During their conversations in Chapter 3, the man asks Anne if there is what on the second floor of her house?
(a) A bathroom.
(b) The child's room.
(c) Her parlor.
(d) A hallway.

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

13. Which of the following does the patronne not say about the dead woman?
(a) She drank.
(b) She had three children.
(c) She was married.
(d) She was pretty.

14. Over the course of his and Anne's conversation in Chapter 4, what does the man grow concerned about?
(a) The time.
(b) The child.
(c) His own appearance.
(d) The wine.

15. What does Anne tell the man she wishes of her child?
(a) That he had better manners.
(b) That he was already grown.
(c) That he was a baby.
(d) That he were smarter.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who first brings up the murdered woman and her husband in Chapter 4?

2. What does the bar patronne do once the workday has ended?

3. What does the man do right after Anne sits at the table?

4. What does Anne, the child, and the teacher do after they investigate the incident through the window?

5. What instrument does the child learn in the book?

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