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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 143 - 181.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does M refer to as "all so many stabs in the dark" (69)?
(a) Trying to predict how your child will turn out.
(b) Trying to make ends meet.
(c) Trying to raise a decent human.
(d) Trying to make a marriage work.

2. What did L tell M he heard while wading back from the sandbar?
(a) A coyote.
(b) A bear.
(c) A woman screaming.
(d) Gunshots.

3. What did the doctors say happened to L?
(a) He had a stroke.
(b) He had a heart attack.
(c) He had a seizure.
(d) He had a brain aneurism.

4. What did L sometimes say to Brett regarding his foul moods?
(a) She had to deal with it.
(b) He was going through the change.
(c) He was expressing his creativity.
(d) He was going to kill himself.

5. How did L look physically when he was released from the hospital?
(a) Ruddy and robust.
(b) Thin and frail.
(c) Hunched over and angry.
(d) Weak and confused.

Short Answer Questions

1. How was Brett dressed the evening they all gathered in the living room of the main house?

2. Which style of painting most spoke to the narrator as she walked through his gallery in Paris?

3. What did Arthur do with L's artwork from the second place?

4. What did Brett say the second place seemed to be straight out of when she first saw it?

5. Who is the author of Second Place?

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