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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 did L tell M he found "obscene" (19) in his first letter to her?
(a) The pollution in L.A.
(b) The way women dressed these days.
(c) The amount of money he was making.
(d) The traffic in Boston.

2. What element of L's early artwork shocked his audience?
(a) The femininity.
(b) The political commentary.
(c) The nudity.
(d) The violence.

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

4. Which style of painting most spoke to the narrator as she walked through his gallery in Paris?
(a) Portraits.
(b) Surrealist.
(c) Landscapes.
(d) Modernist.

5. How are the people with whom L lived while his father died described?
(a) Studious and intellectually.
(b) Hardworking and rough around the edges.
(c) Rough and rambunctious.
(d) Quiet and calm.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What word does the narrator use to describe Jeffers at the start of the story?

3. Where was L when M first wrote to him?

4. Where does L tell M he has always felt most at home?

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

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