View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Strane reveal about Plough’s wife on page 342?
(a) She is his former patient.
(b) She is his former secretary.
(c) She is his former student.
(d) She is his former neighbor.

2. According to Vanessa on page 263, what was Strane’s misfortune?
(a) Falling in love with her.
(b) His dark addictions.
(c) HIs love of Nabokov.
(d) His blind faith.

3. According to Vanessa on page 319, what does she need her relationship with Strane to be?
(a) A coming-of-age story.
(b) A comedy.
(c) A horror story.
(d) A love story.

4. What does Vanessa receive in the mail in the wake of Strane’s death?
(a) Strane's copy of Lolita.
(b) A letter confessing his sins.
(c) Strane's last will and testament.
(d) A package containing objects from their time together.

5. What does Strane want to remind Vanessa on page 327?
(a) That she is a poet.
(b) That she is a warrior.
(c) That she is a woman.
(d) That she is a coward.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Vanessa and Taylor go to speak after Vanessa visits Taylor at her office?

2. According to Strane on page 304, what is the only thing he did to the girl accusing him?

3. How does Vanessa’s mother, Jan, refer to Strane on page 363?

4. Where does Vanessa take her dog at the end of the novel?

5. What color is the dog adopted by Vanessa?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Strane send Vanessa a packet of documents? Of what is he trying to remind her, as he explains on page 327? What does he want to achieve?

2. Who are Jade and Charley and what impact do they have on Vanessa?

3. How does the literature in Vanessa’s gothic seminar parallel her real life?

4. What does Vanessa reveal to Henry Plough regarding her time at Browick? What connection to Browick does Plough reveal?

5. What happens during Vanessa’s conversation with Taylor on page 313?

6. How does Vanessa’s relationship with Strane change after her graduation from college? To what can the reader attribute such change?

7. Who is Bridget? Describe her relationship with Vanessa.

8. What does Strane demand of Vanessa following his interaction with Plough?

9. How does Strane describe the student accusing him of assault on page 306?

10. What does Vanessa discover while working in the urology department of her father’s hospital?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 771 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample