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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. The narrator reports that when Edward stares at Florence, she does not take what action that every other girl takes when he stares at them?
(a) She does not frown at him.
(b) She does not look back at him coyly.
(c) She does not look away.
(d) She does not leave the room.

2. For how many hours a day does Florence practice the violin during her college years?
(a) Five.
(b) Two.
(c) Four.
(d) Three.

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

4. What does Florence do as a result of reading the words, "At B attack!" on the Amadeus Quartet's performance notes?
(a) She decides to start composing music.
(b) She changes her major.
(c) She delivers her resignation to the dean.
(d) She forms her own string quartet.

5. What is Florence wearing when Edward sees her for the first time?
(a) A white cotton dress.
(b) A blue pantsuit.
(c) A purple muslin dress.
(d) A floppy hat.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Edward when he marries Florence?

2. Which department at Edward's college is rumored to be excitingly progressive?

3. During what decade does the couple's wedding take place?

4. What does Edward do with Florence's hand in the movie theater that causes Florence to leap out of her seat?

5. What is Edward's IQ?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the television set symbolize within the narrative?

2. What distinction does the narrator make between Florence's wedding night anxieties and Edward's wedding night anxieties?

3. How does the author use historical context in order to shed light on Florence and Edward's behavior during their wedding night dinner?

4. What example does the author provide to support the claim that Florence has come to find life within her family home as unbearably oppressive?

5. How is irony employed within the narrator's description of the moment Edward asks Florence to marry him?

6. In a rare moment of assertiveness, Florence tells her mother Violet that she is disappointed in her. What reason does she give for her disappointment?

7. How is the theme of misunderstanding portrayed within the narrator's explanation of Edward's mistaking Florence's shyness "for a form of coyness" (25)?

8. What is the author's purpose for including the detail that on the cover of Florence's paperback guide for brides is "portrayed two smiling bug-eyed matchstick figures holding hands, drawn clumsily in white chalk, as though by an innocent child" (12)?

9. What is the significance of Florence's feelings about the word "penetration"? (8)

10. For what reasons does Florence say it is harder for her to contradict her father, Geoffrey, than it is for her to contradict her mother Violet?

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