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

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

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

4. Who does Ganesha say is the only guru?
(a) The Absolute
(b) Gandhi
(c) The elephants
(d) Himself

5. What does he order Elliott not to do?
(a) Get cold
(b) Leave his romm
(c) Smoke
(d) Drink coffee

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Hakim's?

2. What does Elliott miss while he is bedridden?

3. What kind of business does Gray want to start?

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

5. Who does Maugham visit at the Riviera?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In what ways does the story end happily?

3. How does Sophie give in to temptation?

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

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

6. In what way does Maugham criticize the church?

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

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

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

10. How does Suzanne become a successful artist?

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