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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Two.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Florence's nervous habit?
(a) She blinks rapidly.
(b) She raises her hand to her forehead to sweep away an imaginary hair.
(c) She crosses and recrosses her legs.
(d) She cracks her knuckles.

2. Edward's mother Marjorie will not approach him if she sees him holding what object?
(a) A book.
(b) A plate of food.
(c) A gun.
(d) His cat.

3. Which composer is NOT listed among Florence's favorites?
(a) Beethoven.
(b) Bach.
(c) Brahms.
(d) Schumann.

4. How is the cellist in Florence's string quartet different from the other quartet members?
(a) He does not know how to read music.
(b) He is a man.
(c) She has long hair.
(d) She is blind.

5. What college does Edward attend?
(a) Yale.
(b) University College.
(c) The Royal College of Music.
(d) Oxford.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator name as Edward's main activity during the weekends in his college years?

2. Florence describes Edward as virtually the only man she has ever met who does not engage in what practice?

3. What word brings to Florence's mind "nothing but pain, flesh parted before a knife" (8)?

4. What is Florence's IQ?

5. On the day Edward meets Florence, what vehicle does he use to get to the train station?

(see the answer key)

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