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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 36 - 68.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did Tony and M do to prepare the second place for L's arrivals the first time he said he would come?
(a) Updated the plumbing.
(b) Repainted the walls and waxed the floors.
(c) Filled the place with paints and canvases.
(d) Stocked the fridge with his favorite foods.

3. What did M's psychoanalyst do which she found offensive and so she stopped seeing him?
(a) He told other people what she told him.
(b) He doodled a character map.
(c) He told her she was not worth helping.
(d) He ignored her while she spoke.

4. In what way does Brett seem out of place when they meet at the harbor town?
(a) She is overly affectionate.
(b) She is very quiet.
(c) She is dressed in rags.
(d) She is overdressed.

5. What does L tell M he always feel the need to escape during their first conversation after he arrived at the second place?
(a) Society.
(b) Women.
(c) Fame.
(d) His own mind.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator describe the freedom that L's painting emanated?

2. Where was the narrator heading when she met someone on a train which changed the course of her life?

3. How old was M when L came to the marsh?

4. Who told M they had started willing L to come stay in the second place after L finally agreed to come?

5. What does the narrator say she learned from a young age would have made her life easier?

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