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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the narrator say nothing as she watches an old man fondle a little girl on the train?
(a) The man threatened her.
(b) She hoped someone else would.
(c) She had lost her voice.
(d) She did not care.

2. How much of Justine's young life was M unable to care for her?
(a) 6 months.
(b) 3 weeks.
(c) 5 years.
(d) 1 year.

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

4. What does the narrator say she has wanted to be her whole life, but has never succeeded?
(a) Driven.
(b) Beautiful.
(c) Free.
(d) Creative.

5. What did M find L's interest in going to Paris reminded her of?
(a) The freedom she lacked.
(b) Her darkest years.
(c) Falling in love with Tony.
(d) The writer she met there.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did M do not long after her ex-husband humiliated her in front of Justine?

3. What did L tell M he and Brett called her ladder-back chair in the second place?

4. Who is the author of Second Place?

5. What did Brett ask M in regards to her relationship with L?

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