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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 the name of Ganesha's compound?
(a) Lama
(b) Absolution
(c) Ashrama
(d) Peace

2. What does Maugham think that Sophie is going through?
(a) A transition
(b) Doubts
(c) Withdrawal
(d) Self hate

3. Who does Maugham meet at the play?
(a) Sophie
(b) Isabel
(c) Gray
(d) Larry

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Maugham call when it becomes clear that Elliott is near to death?

2. Why does Elliott refuse to lend Paul his costume?

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

4. Where have the police found Sophie's body?

5. Where does Maugham go to work on his novel?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is Isabel's terrible news?

3. In what way does Maugham criticize the church?

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. Why is Elliott so upset at not being invited to Edna's party?

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