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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What can Anne not bring herself to do during the dinner party?

2. What does Anne do on the floor of the room after leaving the dinner party?

3. What is Chauvin talking about when he tells Anne "you better resign yourself to the idea"?

4. Who is the only person in the cafe during the child's music lesson in Chapter 5?

5. What question does Anne ask her child just after leaving the music lesson in Chapter 5?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe how Anne leaves the cafe at the end of Chapter 8.

2. Describe Anne and the child's walk home from the cafe at the end of Chapter 6.

3. In what way does Chauvin tell Anne the dead woman obeyed her husband?

4. Describe Anne and Chauvin's appearance in Chapter 8.

5. How does Chauvin describe the flower on Anne's dress to her in Chapter 6?

6. Why does the teacher to tell Anne that she will no longer be able to give the child piano lessons?

7. How is the weather described at the beginning of Chapter 8?

8. How do Anne and the child react when the teacher asks that someone besides Anne bring him to his music lessons from then on?

9. How is the preparation of the salmon described in Chapter 7?

10. How does the teacher respond to Anne after she says that to improve his piano playing her child just needs to apply himself more?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the role of the siren in the book. What significance did have to the characters of the book? What did it signify to Anne and Chauvin during their meetings?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the author's method of blurring time and space in many chapters of the book. What was the purpose of this method? What did it help to accomplish in terms of character development?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the significance in physical contact in the book. What is the difference in the contact between Anne and her child and Anne and Chauvin? What might physical contact signify to these characters?

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