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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. What does Anne describe as "like black ink"?
(a) Her house.
(b) The shadow of the beech tree.
(c) Her heart.
(d) Her child.

2. What landscape does Anne see when she looks out the window of the teacher's apartment in Chapter 1?
(a) A lake.
(b) The sea.
(c) Rivers.
(d) Mountains.

3. What habit does Anne admit to the man that she has acquired?
(a) Drinking wine.
(b) Drinking beer.
(c) Boating.
(d) Talking to strangers.

4. What does Anne tell her child she will buy for him at the end of Chapter 3?
(a) An airplane.
(b) A blue tugboat.
(c) A red motorboat.
(d) A truck.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Anne say she goes to the railings at her home?

2. What does Anne claim the man lied to her about?

3. Who says, "it would have been impossible for me not to come back"?

4. Who is the man talking about when he says, "perhaps he wanted to kill her right away"?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe what the dead woman's husband does just before he is taken off in the police van.

2. Describe the teacher's reaction after Anne, the child, and the teacher investigate the scream outside the window.

3. How does Anne react when Chauvin mentions her lying in bed in Chapter 4?

4. How does the man at the bar react toward Anne when she repeats his theories of the murder at the end of Chapter 2?

5. Describe the conversations between Anne and the patronne at the beginning of Chapter 3.

6. Describe how Anne reacts after drinking her first two glasses of wine in Chapter 2.

7. Describe the patronne's reaction when Anne and the man at the bar begin talking again in Chapter 3.

8. How does Anne describe the dead woman's scream to the man in Chapter 3?

9. How does the man describe Anne as she looked at the factory worker's reception the previous year?

10. Describe the patronne's reaction toward the man and Anne's talking to one another.

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