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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 69 - 108.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word does the narrator use to describe the writer with whom she spent her last night in Paris?
(a) Environmentalist.
(b) Eccentric.
(c) Earnest.
(d) Egotist.

2. What period of M's life does she say her first encounter with L's artwork coincided?
(a) Her happiest days.
(b) Falling in love with Tony.
(c) Her darkest years.
(d) Her most creative time.

3. What surprised M about L's portrait of Tony?
(a) Tony was far more handsome.
(b) Tony was feminine.
(c) Tony was very tiny in it.
(d) Tony was ugly.

4. What word does the narrator use to describe Jeffers at the start of the story?
(a) Methodist.
(b) Masochist.
(c) Muralist.
(d) Moralist.

5. Who was Candy?
(a) M's first child.
(b) Tony's first wife.
(c) L's former girlfriend.
(d) L's daughter.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say she has wanted to be her whole life, but has never succeeded?

2. What does M refer to as "all so many stabs in the dark" (69)?

3. Why does the narrator say nothing as she watches an old man fondle a little girl on the train?

4. What did M say before L jumped on the table and asked, "Shall we have fun?" (107)?

5. Who did the narrator meet during her darkest years who helped improve her life?

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