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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. Who iss Sophie supposed to meet the day she disappeares?
(a) Elliott
(b) Isabel
(c) Larry
(d) Gray

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

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

4. Why does Maugham think that Elliott cannot stop going to parties?
(a) He needs to be loved.
(b) He needs people around him.
(c) He is a drug addict.
(d) He is afraid of not being important.

5. What is the name of Elliott's manservant?
(a) Jacques
(b) Joseph
(c) Frederick
(d) Jack

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Lary's Yogi?

2. Where does Elliott say he should have never left?

3. Who wants to borrow Elliot's costume?

4. What does Isabel say she sacrificed?

5. How do the police connect Maugham to Sophie?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Elliott say in answer to Edna's invitation?

2. How does Sophie give in to temptation?

3. What is Isabel's terrible news?

4. What is the story of Sophie's disappearance?

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

6. In what ways does the story end happily?

7. How does Maugham obtain an invitation?

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

9. Why does Isabel leave the vodka to tempt Sophie?

10. In what way does Maugham criticize the church?

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