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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is significant about the man the narrator meets on the beach?
(a) He has a mental disability: he is an idiot in the true sense of the word.
(b) He talks incoherently.
(c) His clothes are ragged.
(d) He looks like Maxim's evil twin.

2. From what illness is Mrs Van Hopper suffering?
(a) Asthma.
(b) Pancreatitis.
(c) Influenza.
(d) Pneumonia.

3. How does the narrator show she is nervous around the servants?
(a) She creeps around on tiptoe.
(b) She stutters when she speaks to them.
(c) She tells how her hands shake when she lights a cigarette.
(d) She speaks to them in a tiny voice.

4. For the narrator, what is the result of Mrs Van Hopper's illness?
(a) She gets the sack.
(b) She learns some valuable lessons from the trained nurse.
(c) She gets two weeks of boredom.
(d) She gets two weeks of freedom.

5. What interesting sight does the narrator remember seeing in Monaco?
(a) A crooked house in a cobbled square.
(b) Prince Rainier driving with Princess Grace.
(c) A crooked white building.
(d) A ghostly figure in the sky.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator define happiness?

2. How does Beatrice greet the narrator?

3. What comment does Maxim make about Beatrice?

4. In what way does the narrator disobey her husband?

5. Which of these statements is true of Mrs Van Hopper?

(see the answer key)

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