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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the police connect Maugham to Sophie?
(a) They find a letter.
(b) They find his book in her room.
(c) She speaks his name.
(d) They read her diary.

2. Why is opium easier to get in Toulouse?
(a) It is cheaper.
(b) There are lots of Chinese people.
(c) It has a port.
(d) It is grown there.

3. What city in Spain does Larry visit?
(a) Seville
(b) Betis
(c) Madrid
(d) Barcelona

4. Who does Maugham meet in Toulon?
(a) Suzanne
(b) Gray
(c) Larry
(d) Sophie

5. Who wants to borrow Elliot's costume?
(a) Larry Sinclair
(b) Jose Payno
(c) Davis Love
(d) Paul Barton

6. Why does Elliott refuse to lend Paul his costume?
(a) He is a hopeless gossip
(b) He is careless
(c) He has no morals
(d) He is crass

7. What does Isabel say she sacrificed?
(a) Maugham
(b) Her life
(c) Larry
(d) Her mother

8. Who does Maugham meet at the police station?
(a) Larry
(b) Gray
(c) Isabel
(d) Suzanne

9. Where does Elliott say he should have never left?
(a) America
(b) India
(c) Paris
(d) Chicago

10. What does Sophie say she drinks in Isabel's apartment?
(a) Scottish whiskey
(b) London gin
(c) Polish vodka
(d) Russian vodka

11. What play does Maugham go to see in this chapter?
(a) Faust
(b) Death of a Salesman
(c) The Caretaker
(d) Berenice

12. What is Hakim's?
(a) A brothel
(b) A disco
(c) An opium parlor
(d) A cafe

13. Of what nationality is Edna?
(a) American
(b) English
(c) Italian
(d) Russian

14. How many days after Isabel's meeting with Maugham does she invite Larry and Sophie for lunch?
(a) Three days
(b) Two days
(c) Six days
(d) Four days

15. What does Elliott miss while he is bedridden?
(a) His family
(b) Parties
(c) Eating out
(d) Opium

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Larry stay during the spring?

2. What does Maugham realize when he looks back at the book?

3. To whho does Maugham compare Larry?

4. How many years have Gray and Isabel spent in Paris?

5. Who knocks on Maugham door at his house on the Riviera?

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