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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 Claire's finance's name?
(a) Robert.
(b) Kenny.
(c) Mitch.
(d) Hal.

2. When does Hal arrive in the scene?
(a) He arrives in the beginning.
(b) He never actually enters in the scene.
(c) He arrives in the middle.
(d) He arrives in the end.

3. What mathematical principle is associated with Sophie Germain?
(a) Germain Quarters.
(b) Germain Primes.
(c) Germain Angles.
(d) Germain Algebra.

4. How does Catherine treat the police officers?
(a) She is rude and borderline abusive.
(b) She is outgoing and inviting.
(c) She is very timid and quiet.
(d) She is extremely polite.

5. Who is Sophie Germain?
(a) A woman Catherine previously thought was her mother.
(b) A woman who published great mathematical works under a pseudonym during the French Revolution.
(c) A woman who teaches at the University of Chicago and was very close to Robert.
(d) A woman whose husband stole her ideas and published her work under his name.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Claire related to Catherine?

2. Why did Claire stay up so late?

3. What was Claire trying to do in her conversation with Catherine?

4. Why is Catherine upset with Claire at the end of Scene 2?

5. Besides apartments, what other facilities has Claire scouted for Catherine?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Hal try to take the notebook?

2. Why is Hal insistent on going through all of Robert's notebooks?

3. Robert was a graphomaniac. What does that mean?

4. What does Robert reveal about Catherine's state of mind in the first scene?

5. How is Claire's personality different from Catherine's?

6. Why does Hal think his papers get turned down for publication?

7. Describe the general mood at the house after Robert's funeral.

8. Describe Hal's mood the morning after he and Catherine sleep together.

9. Are Claire and Catherine very comfortable around one another?

10. Why is it strange that Catherine and Robert are speaking in the beginning of the first scene?

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