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

2. To what city is Larry taking a ship?
(a) London
(b) New Mexico
(c) New York
(d) San Francisco

3. What is the subject of Larry's book?
(a) The Absolute
(b) Love
(c) India
(d) Successful men

4. Who leaves Maugham a note at his hotel?
(a) Isabel
(b) Sophie
(c) Suzanne
(d) Larry

5. Who stages the best party of the season?
(a) The Prince of Wales
(b) Count de Lauria
(c) Edna Novemali
(d) Helena Karabcova

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Elliott say the U.S is becoming?

2. Who wants to borrow Elliot's costume?

3. How many days after Isabel's meeting with Maugham does she invite Larry and Sophie for lunch?

4. Why does Maugham think that Elliott cannot stop going to parties?

5. How many weeks later does Maugham meet Elliott in London?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain what Larry sees and feels when he experiences the Absolute?

2. Why does Larry say he has had trouble believing in Christianity?

3. How does Isabel react to Sophie's disappearance?

4. In what way does Sophie embody the book's theme of good and evil?

5. What reasons does Larry give for wanting to marry Sophie?

6. What is Maugham's opinion of Isabel's character?

7. How does Maugham obtain an invitation?

8. In what way has Elliot changed from the last time Maugham saw him?

9. How does the reader know that Isabel is still in love with Larry?

10. Describe the cafe in which Maugham and Larry drink?

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