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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 is NOT one of the items listed by the narrator as one of the few new foods at Florence's house that he actually enjoys heartily?
(a) Confit of duck.
(b) Butternut squash.
(c) Freshly ground coffee.
(d) Fresh figs.

2. Edward is described by the narrator as being what kind of tennis player?
(a) Great.
(b) Terrible.
(c) Good.
(d) Mediocre.

3. When Edward stays at Florence's house prior to their marriage, what is the room called where Edward always sleeps?
(a) The salon.
(b) The guest room.
(c) The drawing room.
(d) The small room.

4. Once Florence runs from the bedroom and out the door after the couple's first calamitous sexual experience, where does she ultimately end up in her desperate attempt to run away from the situation?
(a) On the mossy lawn.
(b) Back inside the honeymoon suite.
(c) Around the side of the hotel.
(d) Down the beach.

5. Edward believes that if he had won any of the tennis matches against Geoffrey, what would have occurred?
(a) He would never have been allowed to see Florence again.
(b) Florence would have never forgiven him.
(c) He would have been knocked down by Geoffrey.
(d) He would have had to wait another year to marry Florence.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Edward's father, Edward's early childhood "had been marked by" (112) what?

2. The narrator states that if Edward were to believe that Florence were "terrified of him" (119), then what would happen?

3. What instrument does Florence believe her sister Ruth plays "abysmally" (101)?

4. What emotion horrifies Florence when she detects it within Edward's request for her to keep still?

5. When Florence asks Edward if he wants to know a secret, she tells him that she is feeling what emotion?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Florence run down to the beach after the sexual mishap with Edward?

2. When the narrator asks what is stopping the couple from joyously and freely moving to consummate their marriage, what is the narrator's provided reply?

3. Who is Harold Mather and what is the significance of his character?

4. What does the narrator mean when writing about Florence, "It helped her to settle on the basics, and she spelled them out for herself in stupid clarity" (105)?

5. How is irony employed within the narrator's portrayal of Edward's struggle to unzip Florence's dress?

6. How is the fact of Florence's childhood sexual abuse again underscored by the author during the scene of Florence and Edward's wedding night sexual mishap?

7. What does the narrator name as Edward's main source of information about women?

8. What does Edward say would likely have happened if he had beaten Geoffrey in a tennis match?

9. When Edward decides that Florence has deceived him about their love, what reasons does Edward consider for why Florence might be marrying him?

10. How is irony present within the narrator's statement that "It crossed Edward's mind, barely seriously, that he was rather too keen to give his daughter away" (140)?

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